U+10505 "𐔅" Elbasan Letter Nde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔅
U+10505 "𐔅" Elbasan Letter Nde is a letter from the Elbasan script, a historical alphabet used primarily in the 18th century to write the Albanian language. This specific character represents the voiced alveolar nasal sound, similar to the English letter "N", and is part of a script believed to have been developed by the Albanian scholar Voskopoja in the region of Elbasan, Albania. The Elbasan script was used in religious and literary texts, though it eventually fell out of common use, and today this character is of interest to linguists, historians, and digital typography enthusiasts for its unique paleographic features and cultural significance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10505 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Nde |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010505 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd05 |