U+10545 "𐕅" Caucasian Albanian Letter Lyit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕅
U+10545 "𐕅" Caucasian Albanian Letter Lyit is a character from the Caucasian Albanian script, an alphabet used historically from the 5th to the 7th centuries CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an ancient East Caucasian language also known as Old Udi. This specific letter represents the sound "ly" or a lateral palatal approximant. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 7.0, released in June 2014, as part of the Caucasian Albanian block, which covers the alphabet discovered in medieval manuscripts and stone inscriptions, primarily from the Caucasus region. The inclusion of Lyit aids in the digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct script and its linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10545 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Lyit |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010545 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd45 |
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 |