U+10516 "𐔖" Elbasan Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10516 "𐔖" Elbasan Letter O is a character from the Elbasan script, an alphabet created in the 18th century for writing the Albanian language, primarily used in the Elbasan region of central Albania. This specific letter represents the vowel sound "O" in the Elbasan alphabet, which consists of 40 distinct letters and is known for its unique, rounded shapes that differ significantly from the Latin or Greek scripts. The character is part of the Unicode Elbasan block (U+10500 to U+1052F), encoded in version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, and it helps preserve a historical writing system that was employed in early Albanian religious and educational texts, most notably the 1761 "Elbasan Gospel Manuscript."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10516 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter O |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010516 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd16 |