U+10283 "𐊃" Lycian Letter Bh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊃
U+10283 "𐊃" Lycian Letter Bh is part of the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used in Lycia, a region in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), primarily from the 5th to 4th centuries BCE. This character represents a sound similar to the English "b" or a voiced bilabial fricative, and it was used to write the Lycian language, which belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family. The Lycian script was deciphered in the 19th century, and this specific letter can be found in inscriptions on stone monuments and coins, providing valuable insights into the culture and history of the Lycian people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10283 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lycian Letter Bh |
| Block | Lycian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDE83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010283 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\ude83 |