U+102A3 "𐊣" Carian Letter L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊣
U+102A3 "𐊣" Carian Letter L is a symbol from the ancient Carian alphabet, which was used primarily in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the first millennium BCE to write the Carian language, a member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. This specific character represents the sound equivalent to the letter L in the Carian script, and its form, resembling a stylized angular shape, is part of a writing system that was deciphered only partially through bilingual inscriptions and comparative analysis with Greek. The Carian alphabet is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Carian block, ensuring modern digital preservation and study of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102A3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter L |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDEA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udea3 |