U+102A6 "𐊦" Carian Letter Ld Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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