U+10521 "𐔡" Elbasan Letter Xe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔡
U+10521 "𐔡" Elbasan Letter Xe is a historical letter from the Elbasan script, an alphabet invented in the mid-18th century for writing the Albanian language. This specific character represents a glottal or velar fricative sound, similar to the modern Albanian "xh". The Elbasan script was developed by the Albanian Orthodox monk Gregory of Elbasan and was primarily used in religious and educational texts before being largely supplanted by the Latin-based Albanian alphabet. Today, the Elbasan Letter Xe is classified under the Unicode block "Elbasan" and serves as a valuable resource for scholars studying the paleography and linguistic history of the Albanian language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10521 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Xe |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010521 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd21 |