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 |