U+1059C "𐖜" Vithkuqi Small Letter De Unicode Character

U+1059C "𐖜" Vithkuqi Small Letter De is part of the Vithkuqi alphabet, a historical script developed in the 19th century by the Albanian scholar Naum Veqilharxhi to write the Albanian language. This character represents the sound /d/ and is used in lowercase form within the script, which was designed to be a distinct and simplified writing system for Albanians during a period of cultural and linguistic revival. The Vithkuqi script, named after the village of Vithkuq, was not widely adopted but remains a significant part of Albanian typographic heritage, and its letters were added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of the Vithkuqi block to preserve this unique writing system for digital and scholarly use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1059C
Version Added	14.0
Name	Vithkuqi Small Letter De
Block	Vithkuqi
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐖜
HTML Hex Encoding	𐖜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x96 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDD9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001059C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udd9c

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𐕵" U+10575 Vithkuqi Capital Letter De
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐕵" U+10575 Vithkuqi Capital Letter De
Uppercase Code Point	"𐕵" U+10575 Vithkuqi Capital Letter De
Titlecase Code Point	"𐕵" U+10575 Vithkuqi Capital Letter De
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower