U+1BC64 "𛱤" Duployan Letter Nasal A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛱤
U+1BC64 "𛱤" Duployan Letter Nasal A is a component of the Duployan shorthand script, which was developed in the 19th century by French priest Émile Duployé for rapid writing in French, English, and other languages. This specific character represents a nasalized variant of the vowel "A," meaning it is pronounced with air flowing through both the mouth and the nose. It is part of a larger system of simplified phonetic symbols designed to capture speech efficiently, and it appears in the Unicode Standard under the Duployan block, which was added to support historical and linguistic documentation of shorthand systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC64 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Duployan Letter Nasal A |
| Block | Duployan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛱤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛱤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0xB1 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82F 0xDC64 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001BC64 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82f\udc64 |