U+1053C "𐔼" Caucasian Albanian Letter Irb Unicode Character

U+1053C "𐔼" Caucasian Albanian Letter Irb is a character from the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily between the 5th and 12th centuries to write the Caucasian Albanian language, which served as a liturgical language for the Caucasian Albanian Church. This specific letter represents the phoneme /irb/ and is part of a writing system that was rediscovered and deciphered from medieval manuscripts and stone inscriptions found in the Caucasus region. The addition of this character to the Unicode Standard in 2014, as part of the Caucasian Albanian block, helps preserve and facilitate digital representation of this historically significant script.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐔼
HTML Hex Encoding	𐔼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDD3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001053C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udd3c

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