U+10508 "𐔈" Elbasan Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔈
U+10508 "𐔈" Elbasan Letter E is a character from the Elbasan script, an alphabet historically used in the 18th century to write the Albanian language, particularly in the Elbasan region of central Albania. This specific glyph represents the vowel sound /e/ and is one of roughly 40 letters in the Elbasan alphabet, which was primarily employed in religious and educational manuscripts, most notably the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript. The character was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Elbasan block, helping to preserve and digitally represent this unique historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10508 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter E |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010508 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd08 |