U+102BC "𐊼" Carian Letter K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐊼
U+102BC "𐊼" Carian Letter K is a glyph from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used to write the Carian language in regions of western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the first millennium BCE. This specific letter represents the sound /k/ and is part of a syllabic alphabet that was deciphered in the late 20th century, revealing a language related to Luwian within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family. The character is encoded in the Unicode Carian block, which spans from U+102A0 to U+102DF and was introduced in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this extinct writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102BC |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter K |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐊼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐊼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8A 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDEBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udebc |