U+1BC39 "ð›°¹" Duployan Letter Wh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð›°¹
U+1BC39 "ð›°¹" Duployan Letter Wh is part of the Duployan script block, a shorthand system invented by Émile Duployé in the 19th century for writing French and later adapted for English and Indigenous languages of North America. This specific character represents the sound "wh" as in "what" and is used in phonetic transcription systems derived from Duployan shorthand, notably in the Chinook Jargon and other languages. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to facilitate digital representation of historical and linguistic texts that employ this script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC39 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter Wh |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛰹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛰹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB0 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc39 |