U+10904 "𐤄" Phoenician Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤄
U+10904 "𐤄" Phoenician Letter He is a symbol from the ancient Phoenician abjad, representing the consonant sound /h/. This letter, named after the word for "window" or "lattice" in Phoenician, is the fifth character in the Phoenician alphabet and is the direct ancestor of the Greek letter Epsilon and the Latin letters E and e. It was used primarily from around 1200 BCE in inscriptions across the Mediterranean, reflecting the phonetic inventory of the Phoenician language, which was a major influence on later writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10904 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter He |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010904 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd04 |