U+10344 "𐍄" Gothic Letter Teiws Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐍄
U+10344 "𐍄" Gothic Letter Teiws is a character from the Gothic script, an alphabet used primarily for writing the Gothic language in the 4th century CE, most famously in the Wulfila Bible. This letter represents the sound /t/ and is named after the Germanic god Tīwaz, associated with law and justice. It is part of the Gothic block in Unicode, which was added in version 3.1 in 2001 to support historical and liturgical texts preserving one of the earliest Germanic languages. In scholarly contexts, it helps linguists and historians transcribe Gothic manuscripts, linking modern digital encoding to ancient writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10344 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Gothic Letter Teiws |
| Block | Gothic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐍄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐍄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8D 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010344 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf44 |