U+1059E "𐖞" Vithkuqi Small Letter Ei Unicode Character

U+1059E "𐖞" Vithkuqi Small Letter Ei is part of the Vithkuqi script, a historical alphabet created in the 19th century for writing the Albanian language. This specific character represents the lowercase form of the vowel sound "Ei" in the Vithkuqi writing system, which was designed with distinct uppercase and lowercase letterforms before the era of modern digital typography. The character belongs to the Vithkuqi block of Unicode, added in version 14.0 in 2021 to preserve and digitize this endangered script. Its glyph resembles a stylized curved shape, contributing to the script's unique visual identity distinct from the Latin and Greek alphabets.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐖞
HTML Hex Encoding	𐖞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x96 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDD9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001059E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udd9e

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	"𐕷" U+10577 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ei
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐕷" U+10577 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ei
Uppercase Code Point	"𐕷" U+10577 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ei
Titlecase Code Point	"𐕷" U+10577 Vithkuqi Capital Letter Ei
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