U+1BC59 "ð›±™" Duployan Letter Ooh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BC59 "ð›±™" Duployan Letter Ooh is a symbol from the Duployan script, a shorthand writing system invented in the 19th century by French priest Émile Duployé for French, and later adapted for English and other languages. This specific character represents the vowel sound "oo" as in "boot," and it is part of the Duployan block in Unicode, which was added to support the historical and liturgical use of the script, particularly within Indigenous Canadian communities that adopted it for languages like Chinook Jargon and Slavey.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC59 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter Ooh |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛱙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛱙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc59 |