U+10363 "𐍣" Old Permic Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐍣
U+10363 "𐍣" Old Permic Letter U is a glyph from the Old Permic script, an alphabet historically used to write the Komi language and other Uralic languages in the Perm region of northeastern Europe during the 14th to 17th centuries. This specific character represents the vowel sound /u/ and was part of an alphabet created by the missionary Saint Stephen of Perm, who adapted elements from Greek, Cyrillic, and indigenous Tamga symbols to facilitate Christian literacy among the Komi people. The letter is included in the Unicode standard as part of the Old Permic block, which preserves this historical writing system for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10363 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old Permic Letter U |
| Block | Old Permic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐍣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐍣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8D 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010363 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf63 |