U+10509 "𐔉" Elbasan Letter Fe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔉
U+10509 "𐔉" Elbasan Letter Fe is a glyph from the Elbasan script, an ancient alphabet used primarily in the 18th century for writing the Albanian language, particularly within the Elbasan Gospel manuscript. This specific letter represents the sound /f/ and is one of the 40 characters in the Elbasan alphabet, which was designed to record Albanian texts before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. The script, and thus this character, holds historical significance as an early attempt to create a distinct writing system for Albanian, reflecting the cultural and linguistic identity of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10509 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Fe |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010509 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd09 |