U+10524 "𐔤" Elbasan Letter Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔤
U+10524 "𐔤" Elbasan Letter Zhe is a glyph from the historical Elbasan script, an alphabet created in the 18th century for writing the Albanian language, primarily used in the region of Elbasan, Albania. This specific letter represents the voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "zh" in "measure," and it is part of a unique writing system documented in the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, a religious text from 1761. The script was added to the Unicode Standard in Version 7.0, released in 2014, to preserve and enable digital use of this significant but lesser known alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10524 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Zhe |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010524 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd24 |