U+10590 "𐖐" Vithkuqi Capital Letter U Unicode Character

U+10590 "𐖐" Vithkuqi Capital Letter U is part of the Vithkuqi script, an alphabet historically used to write the Albanian language, particularly during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This specific character represents the capital form of the vowel sound /u/ and belongs to a block of Unicode that was added in version 14.0 in 2021 to support digital preservation of the script. The Vithkuqi script itself was created by the Albanian scholar Naum Veqilharxhi in the 1840s as part of efforts to develop a distinctive national writing system for Albanian, distinct from the Latin, Greek, and Arabic alphabets then in use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10590
Version Added	14.0
Name	Vithkuqi Capital Letter U
Block	Vithkuqi
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐖐
HTML Hex Encoding	𐖐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x96 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDD90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010590
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udd90

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
Lowercase Code Point	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
Simple Case Folding	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
Case Folding	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐖷" U+105B7 Vithkuqi Small Letter U
Script	Vithkuqi
Script Extensions	Vithkuqi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper