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elbasan letter je

Elbasan letter Je

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𐔎 is a letter from the historical Elbasan alphabet, created for Albanian. Modern Albanian transcription pairs it with lowercase Latin j, and its visible shape depends on font support. As of 2026, Elbasan is not in customary modern use, so this character mainly appears in historical writing and transcription.

Text symbol

What 𐔎 means

Modern Albanian transcription represents it with lowercase Latin j.

Transcription converts a text from one writing system to another. This pairing identifies corresponding letter values, not similar shapes.

Devised around 1750 for the Elbasan Gospel, the alphabet served biblical Albanian writing. A 2010 Unicode proposal describes the Gospel as the earliest-known Albanian text in an original alphabet; the manuscript is associated with St Jovan Vladimir's Church in central Albania and 1761.

Historical and technical; a bare 𐔎 points to Elbasan writing or transcription, not everyday modern Albanian prose.

Part of the collection

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Old Albanian Alphabets (Elbasan, Vithkuqi & Todhri)
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Who writes 𐔎

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Don't confuse it with

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I
Latin Capital Letter I
Latin capital I is a plain upright stroke of nearly the same look. It is the usual typed or pasted stand-in, and a different character for search and passwords.
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Vertical Line
Vertical line is a keyboard symbol. In many fonts this Elbasan letter is a bare stroke, so text can look identical when copied.
Ӏ
Cyrillic Letter Palochka
Cyrillic palochka is a single upright stroke used in some Caucasian Cyrillic orthographies. It can pass for Latin I or l in names and addresses.
1
Digit One
Digit one is a numeral with a flag at the top. In sans-serif fonts an upright stroke can be misread as 1 when copied.
Ι
Greek Capital Letter Iota
Greek capital iota is a stroke that looks like Latin I in most fonts. It gets mixed in through Greek keyboards and copy-paste.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𐔎 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Elbasan block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.

How to type or find 𐔎

Search it as
Elbasan alphabet · Elbasan script · Elbasan letter j · Elbasan Gospel · Anonimi i Elbasanit · old Albanian alphabet · Elbasan keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1050E, then AltX to get 𐔎.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “elbasan letter je”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1050e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐔎
CSS
\1050E
Keyman Elbasan keyboard
As of 2026, Keyman, a keyboard app, lists a Unicode Elbasan layout for Windows, macOS, Linux, web, Android, and iPhone/iPad.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐔎
HTML hex
𐔎
CSS content
content: "\1050E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%94%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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European scripts1,468 symbols

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