U+10506 "𐔆" Elbasan Letter Dhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔆
U+10506 "𐔆" Elbasan Letter Dhe is a letter from the Elbasan script, an alphabet historically used from the mid-18th century to write the Albanian language, particularly in the region of Elbasan, central Albania. This specific letter corresponds to the sound "dh" as in the English word "this" and is part of a script created by the Albanian scholar and monk Theodhor Haxhifilipi, who sought to provide a distinct writing system for Albanian before the adoption of the modern Latin-based alphabet. The Elbasan script contains over 40 letters and is of significant historical interest to linguists and paleographers studying the development of writing systems in the Balkans.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10506 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Dhe |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010506 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd06 |