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 |