U+10486 "𐒆" Osmanya Letter Deel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒆
U+10486 "𐒆" Osmanya Letter Deel is part of the Osmanya script, a writing system invented in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for the Somali language. This specific character represents the voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the "th" in the English word "the," and is used in the transcription of Somali words within the Osmanya alphabet. It occupies the Unicode block for Osmanya, which was added to the standard in 2006 as part of supplementing the representation of historical and modern African scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10486 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Deel |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010486 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc86 |