U+1BC55 "𛱕" Duployan Letter Long U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛱕
U+1BC55 "𛱕" Duployan Letter Long U is a glyph within the Duployan shorthand block, a script developed in the 19th century by Émile Duployé for writing French and other languages with simplified, phonetic characters. This specific letter represents the long vowel sound /uː/, as in the English word "moon," and is part of a system designed for rapid, handwritten communication, often used in stenography and religious texts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode this historical shorthand system for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC55 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter Long U |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛱕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛱕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB1 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc55 |