U+102B8 "𐊸" Carian Letter Ss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊸
U+102B8 "𐊸" Carian Letter Ss is a character from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used in Caria, a region of Anatolia in present day Turkey, primarily between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. This specific letter represents the sound /s/ and was part of a writing system used to inscribe the Carian language, which remains only partially deciphered. The addition of this character to the Unicode Standard in the Carian block ensures its preservation and enables modern digital representation for scholarly study and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102B8 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter Ss |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDEB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udeb8 |