U+10539 "𐔹" Caucasian Albanian Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐔹

U+10539 "𐔹" Caucasian Albanian Letter Cha is a character from the historical Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was used primarily between the 5th and 12th centuries to write the Caucasian Albanian language, a script now associated with the modern Udi language community. This specific letter represents the sound "ch" as in "church" and belongs to a unique script rediscovered in medieval Armenian manuscripts, notably including Georgian and Armenian influences. The Caucasian Albanian alphabet was deciphered in the 20th century through study of a 15th century palimpsest from the Saint Catherine's Monastery, and the inclusion of this character in Unicode (version 7.0 in 2014) ensures its digital preservation for linguistic research and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+10539
Version Added 7.0
Name Caucasian Albanian Letter Cha
Block Caucasian Albanian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐔹
HTML Hex Encoding 𐔹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDD39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010539
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udd39

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