U+10499 "𐒙" Osmanya Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒙
U+10499 "𐒙" Osmanya Letter O is a glyph from the Osmanya script, an alphabet created in the 1920s by Osman Yusuf Kenadid specifically for writing the Somali language, where it represents the vowel sound /o/. This letter was part of a larger effort to develop a native orthography for Somali, which had previously been written primarily using the Arabic or Latin scripts in various contexts. Although the Osmanya script has seen limited adoption and is not officially used in modern Somalia, it holds cultural and historical significance as a symbol of Somali national identity and linguistic innovation, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure its preservation for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10499 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter O |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010499 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc99 |