U+10299 "𐊙" Lycian Letter An Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐊙

U+10299 "𐊙" Lycian Letter An is a character from the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used to write the Lycian language spoken in the region of Lycia in southwestern Anatolia during the first millennium BCE. This particular letter represents the sound equivalent to the Greek letter Alpha and corresponds to the vowel /a/ in the Lycian phonetic system. The Lycian script, which was deciphered in the 19th century, is closely related to the Lydian and Phrygian alphabets and is written from left to right. The character "𐊙" is part of the Lycian block in the Unicode Standard, allowing for its digital representation and study in historical linguistics and epigraphy.

General Properties

Code Point U+10299
Version Added 5.1
Name Lycian Letter An
Block Lycian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐊙
HTML Hex Encoding 𐊙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDE99
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010299
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\ude99

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Lycian
Script Extensions Lycian
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter