U+1BC43 "𛱃" Duployan Letter Oa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛱃
U+1BC43 "𛱃" Duployan Letter Oa is a part of the Duployan shorthand block, which encodes the phonetic script invented by Émile Duployé in the 19th century for writing French, English, and other languages. This specific character represents the vowel sound "oa" in the Duployan system, typically depicted as a small angled or curved stroke that modifies a consonant base to indicate the accompanying vowel. It is used primarily in historical or specialized contexts for transcribing speech phonetically and is included in Unicode to support the digital preservation of this shorthand script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC43 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter Oa |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛱃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛱃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB1 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc43 |