U+10498 "𐒘" Osmanya Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒘
U+10498 "𐒘" Osmanya Letter I is used in the Osmanya script, a writing system created in the early 20th century for the Somali language designed to replace the Latin and Arabic scripts. It represents the vowel sound /i/, similar to the “i” in the English word “machine”. This character is part of the Osmanya block within Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is read from left to right, belonging to a script that reflects a cultural effort to standardize Somali orthography before later being supplanted by the Latin alphabet in official use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10498 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter I |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010498 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc98 |