U+102A0 "𐊠" Carian Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐊠

U+102A0 "𐊠" Carian Letter A is a symbol from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) to write the Carian language from roughly the 7th to the 3rd century BCE. This letter represents the sound /a/ and belongs to a writing system that was deciphered in the 20th century, revealing a language related to the Luwian subgroup of Anatolian Indo-European languages. Carian inscriptions, often found on stone monuments and tombs, reflect the cultural and historical interactions between Carian city-states and neighboring civilizations such as the Greeks and Lydians. Encoded in the Unicode standard under the Carian block, this character enables digital representation and study of this ancient and linguistically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point U+102A0
Version Added 5.1
Name Carian Letter A
Block Carian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐊠
HTML Hex Encoding 𐊠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDEA0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000102A0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udea0

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 Carian
Script Extensions Carian
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