U+1BC38 "饹案" Duployan Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饹案
U+1BC38 "饹案" Duployan Letter W is a specific glyph within the Duployan shorthand script, an invented system of rapid writing developed in the late 19th century by Émile Duployé for use in French stenography and later adapted for other languages. This character represents the consonant sound "W" and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to preserving this historical shorthand, which uses geometric shapes and connecting strokes to achieve high speed in writing. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital representation and study of a script that was once primarily used for personal note-taking, religious translation, and journalistic transcription, particularly among indigenous language speakers in Canada.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC38 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter W |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛰸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛰸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc38 |