U+1053E "𐔾" Caucasian Albanian Letter Lan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐔾
U+1053E "𐔾" Caucasian Albanian Letter Lan is a character from the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient alphabet historically used to write the Caucasian Albanian language, which was spoken in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and Dagestan. This specific letter represents the sound "l" and is part of a 52 letter alphabet believed to have been created in the 5th century AD by the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots. The Caucasian Albanian script was largely forgotten for centuries until its rediscovery in the 20th century through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions, leading to its inclusion in the Unicode Standard to support digital representation and study of this historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1053E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Lan |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐔾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐔾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x94 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001053E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd3e |
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 |