U+10838 "𐠸" Cypriot Syllable Xe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐠸
U+10838 "𐠸" Cypriot Syllable Xe is a character from the Cypriot syllabary, an ancient script used primarily on the island of Cyprus from the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE to write the Eteocypriot and Arcadocypriot Greek languages. This particular syllabic sign represents the phonetic sound "xe", combining a consonant and a vowel, and is part of a writing system that was deciphered in the 19th century with the help of bilingual inscriptions. Classified in the Unicode standard under the Cypriot Syllabary block, it serves as a digital representation for historical and scholarly documentation of this undeciphered ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10838 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Cypriot Syllable Xe |
| Block | Cypriot Syllabary |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐠸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐠸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010838 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc38 |