U+10808 "𐠈" Cypriot Syllable Jo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐠈
U+10808 "𐠈" Cypriot Syllable Jo is a historical letter from the Cypriot syllabary, a writing system used on the island of Cyprus from roughly the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE to record the local dialect of the Greek language and the Eteocypriot language. This specific character represents the syllable "jo" and belongs to the Cypriot Syllabary block, encoded in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003 to support the digital representation of this ancient script. Its shape, a simple angular symbol, reflects the linear and geometric style typical of the syllabary, which was deciphered primarily through bilingual inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10808 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Cypriot Syllable Jo |
| Block | Cypriot Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐠈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐠈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010808 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc08 |