U+10518 "𐔘" Elbasan Letter Qe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔘
U+10518 "𐔘" Elbasan Letter Qe is a character from the historic Elbasan script, a medieval alphabet created during the 18th century for writing the Albanian language, specifically in the region of Elbasan, Albania. This letter represents a voiceless uvular plosive sound, similar to the "q" in modern Albanian, and is part of a larger set of characters designed to capture the unique phonetics of the language at the time. The Elbasan script is known for its distinctive, rounded shapes, and the letter Qe appears as a stylized glyph that contributes to the script's overall visual identity. Despite its limited historical usage, it remains an important part of the Unicode Standard for preserving and digitally representing minority scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10518 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Qe |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010518 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd18 |