U+1BC08 "𛰈" Duployan Letter D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛰈
U+1BC08 "𛰈" Duployan Letter D is a character from the Duployan shorthand script block, which was historically used to write languages like French, English, and Indigenous languages of North America such as Chinook Jargon. This specific character represents the sound of the letter "D" in the Duployan system, a cursive shorthand invented by Émile Duployé in the 19th century for rapid writing. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the supplemental multilingual plane, ensuring digital preservation and cross-platform support for this lesser used yet historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC08 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter D |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛰈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛰈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc08 |