U+10497 "𐒗" Osmanya Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒗
U+10497 "𐒗" Osmanya Letter E is part of the Osmanya script, an alphabet created in the early 1920s by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language. This specific character represents the vowel sound "e," as in the English word "bed," and is used in the standard orthography of Osmanya. Although the script was developed to replace the Latin and Arabic alphabets for Somali writing, it never achieved widespread official adoption and is primarily of historical and scholarly interest today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10497 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter E |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010497 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc97 |