U+1E5DB "ðž—›" Ol Onal Letter Aw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž—›
U+1E5DB "ðž—›" Ol Onal Letter Aw is a glyph belonging to the Ol Onal script, an endangered writing system used historically for the Oromo language in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "aw," and it is part of a larger, recently encoded Unicode block (U+1E5D0 to U+1E5FF) added in version 16.0 in 2024 to preserve and digitally support this unique alphabet. The inclusion of the Ol Onal script in Unicode helps safeguard the linguistic heritage of the Oromo people, enabling modern text processing and cultural documentation for a writing system that dates back to the early 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5DB |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Ol Onal Letter Aw |
| Block | Ol Onal |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞗛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞗛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x97 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD839 0xDDDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E5DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud839\udddb |