U+102A9 "𐊩" Carian Letter B Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐊩

U+102A9 "𐊩" Carian Letter B is a symbol from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from roughly the 7th to the 4th centuries BCE to write the Carian language, which belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family. This particular character represents the sound /b/ and belongs to the Carian block of Unicode, encoded under Supplementary Multilingual Plane. While many Carian letters have uncertain or debated phonetic values, "𐊩" is one of the more securely identified signs, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent a writing system that was largely indecipherable until the late 20th century, when bilingual inscriptions allowed for substantial progress in its understanding.

General Properties

Code Point U+102A9
Version Added 5.1
Name Carian Letter B
Block Carian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐊩
HTML Hex Encoding 𐊩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDEA9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000102A9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udea9

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