U+1053B "𐔻" Caucasian Albanian Letter Zha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1053B "𐔻" Caucasian Albanian Letter Zha is a letter from the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient alphabet used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, which was spoken in parts of the modern-day Caucasus region. This specific letter represents a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "zh" in English "measure," and it was part of a larger alphabet of 52 characters traditionally attributed to the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots. The script and its letters, including Zha, were rediscovered and deciphered through 20th-century scholarship, primarily from palimpsests and inscriptions in Georgia and Azerbaijan, and were formally encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014.

General Properties

Code Point U+1053B
Version Added 7.0
Name Caucasian Albanian Letter Zha
Block Caucasian Albanian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐔻
HTML Hex Encoding 𐔻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDD3B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001053B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udd3b

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