U+102CA "𐋊" Carian Letter Mb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐋊
U+102CA "𐋊" Carian Letter Mb is a letter from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE to write the Carian language, which is part of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. This character represents a sound similar to the modern letter combination "mb" and is part of the Carian block in Unicode, which was added to enable digital representation and study of this historically significant but undeciphered writing system. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars, linguists, and enthusiasts preserve and analyze Carian inscriptions found on stone monuments and pottery across the Mediterranean region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+102CA |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Carian Letter Mb |
| Block | Carian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐋊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐋊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000102CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udeca |