U+1029C "𐊜" Lycian Letter X Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊜
U+1029C "𐊜" Lycian Letter X is a character from the Lycian alphabet, which was used primarily between 500 and 300 BCE in the region of Lycia, in what is now southwestern Turkey. This letter represents the sound /x/, similar to the voiceless velar fricative found in words like the Scottish “loch.” The Lycian script is partially derived from the Greek alphabet but includes unique letters adapted to the Lycian language, which belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family. Today, the Lycian Letter X is encoded in Unicode as part of the Lycian block, enabling its digital representation and study by linguists and historians interested in ancient Anatolian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1029C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lycian Letter X |
| Block | Lycian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001029C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\ude9c |