U+10280 "𐊀" Lycian Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊀
U+10280 "𐊀" Lycian Letter A is a glyph representing the first letter of the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used in the region of Lycia in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from roughly the 5th to the 4th centuries BCE. This character belongs to the Lycian block of Unicode, which was added to version 5.1 in 2008, and it corresponds to the Greek letter Alpha in both shape and phonetic value, representing the vowel sound /a/. The Lycian script itself is largely derived from the Greek alphabet, with additional characters for indigenous sounds, and it was used primarily for inscriptions on stone and coinage, preserving a language that is still not fully understood.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10280 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lycian Letter A |
| Block | Lycian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDE80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010280 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\ude80 |