U+1053A "𐔺" Caucasian Albanian Letter Yowd Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔺
U+1053A "𐔺" Caucasian Albanian Letter Yowd is part of the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient alphabet used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE primarily to write the Udi language, a Northeast Caucasian language still spoken in parts of Azerbaijan and Georgia. This character represents the sound /j/, similar to the English "y" in "yes", and was one of 52 letters in the original Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was rediscovered and deciphered through medieval Armenian manuscripts and palimpsests. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the preservation and digital representation of this historically significant script for linguistic and cultural research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1053A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Yowd |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001053A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd3a |
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 |