U+1049C "𐒜" Osmanya Letter Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒜
U+1049C "𐒜" Osmanya Letter Ee is a part of the Osmanya script, an alphabetic writing system created in the 1920s by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for the Somali language. This specific character represents the vowel sound "ee," akin to the long 'e' in English words like "see." Found in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it was encoded in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003 to support the preservation and digital use of the Osmanya alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1049C |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Ee |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001049C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc9c |