U+10287 "𐊇" Lycian Letter W Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊇
U+10287 "𐊇" Lycian Letter W is a specific glyph from the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used between roughly 500 and 300 BCE in the Lycian region of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). This letter represents a voiced labiovelar sound similar to the English "w" and was part of a 29-character alphabetic system derived from the Greek alphabet but with distinct local adaptations. The character appears in the Unicode Standard under the Lycian block, encoding a writing system that was deciphered in the 19th and 20th centuries primarily through bilingual inscriptions with Greek. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars, linguists, and digital archivists can accurately represent and study this extinct language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10287 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lycian Letter W |
| Block | Lycian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDE87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010287 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\ude87 |