U+10905 "𐤅" Phoenician Letter Wau Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤅
U+10905 "𐤅" Phoenician Letter Wau is a representation of the sixth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which was the ancestor of many modern writing systems including Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. This character, named Wau, originally denoted a consonant sound similar to the English "w" or a vowel sound like "u" or "o" depending on its position, and its shape evolved from earlier pictographs representing a hook or a peg. In the Phoenician script, it held a numerical value of six and was a foundational component in the development of the Greek letter Digamma, which later influenced the Latin letter F.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10905 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Wau |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010905 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd05 |