U+102A8 "𐊨" Carian Letter Q Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊨
U+102A8 "𐊨" Carian Letter Q is a symbol from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily in Caria, a region of southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), from roughly the 7th to the 3rd century BCE. This character represents a consonant sound, specifically the voiceless uvular plosive /q/, and is part of the Carian block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support the digital encoding of this historical writing system. The Carian script, which was deciphered in the 20th century, is known for its unique letter shapes and was used to write the Carian language, a poorly attested member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102A8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter Q |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udea8 |