U+102A6 "𐊦" Carian Letter Ld Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐊦

U+102A6 "𐊦" Carian Letter Ld is part of the Carian alphabet, a script used in ancient Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE to write the Carian language. This specific glyph represents the sound [ld] or possibly a lateralized dental voiced sound, contributing to the phonetic inventory of a language that remains only partially deciphered today. The character belongs to the Carian block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support scholarship on this obscure, non-Indo-European language and its inscriptions found primarily on stone monuments and tombs. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historians and linguists can digitally preserve and study the ancient script without relying on idiosyncratic fonts or manual transcription.

General Properties

Code Point U+102A6
Version Added 5.1
Name Carian Letter Ld
Block Carian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐊦
HTML Hex Encoding 𐊦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDEA6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000102A6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udea6

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