U+1053D "𐔽" Caucasian Albanian Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔽
U+1053D "𐔽" Caucasian Albanian Letter Sha is a grapheme used in the historical Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was employed from the 5th to the 12th centuries to write the now extinct Caucasian Albanian language. This letter represents the sound "sh" as in the English word "shut" and is part of a script that likely derived from the Aramaic writing system, found primarily in ancient inscriptions from the Caucasus region. The Caucasian Albanian alphabet was deciphered in the 20th century through surviving manuscripts and stone carvings, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this unique linguistic heritage for digital communication and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1053D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Sha |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001053D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd3d |
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 |