U+10538 "𐔸" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔸
U+10538 "𐔸" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tas is part of the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, an ancient script used from the 5th to the 7th century CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, a Northeast Caucasian language historically spoken in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and southern Russia. This specific character, named Tas, represents a consonant sound in that alphabet and was included in the Unicode Standard in 2014 with version 7.0, as part of a larger effort to preserve and digitally encode historical scripts. Its usage today is primarily scholarly, aiding in the study of ancient Caucasian texts, inscriptions, and the linguistic history of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10538 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Tas |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010538 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd38 |
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 | Caucasian Albanian |
| Script Extensions | Caucasian Albanian |
| 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 |