U+10526 "𐔦" Elbasan Letter Ghamma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔦
U+10526 "𐔦" Elbasan Letter Ghamma is a letter from the Elbasan script, an alphabetic writing system created in the mid 18th century for the Albanian language. This specific character represents the voiced velar fricative sound, similar to the "gh" in English "ghost" or the Greek gamma before back vowels. The Elbasan script was developed by the Albanian monk and scholar Gregory of Durrës and was used primarily in religious texts and educational materials in central Albania. While the script saw limited historical use before being largely replaced by Latin and Greek alphabets, the Elbasan Letter Ghamma remains a significant part of Albanian linguistic heritage and is encoded in Unicode to preserve it for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10526 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Elbasan Letter Ghamma |
| Block | Elbasan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010526 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd26 |