U+10547 "𐕇" Caucasian Albanian Letter Qay Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐕇

U+10547 "𐕇" Caucasian Albanian Letter Qay is a grapheme from the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient writing system used to record the Caucasian Albanian language, primarily in the region of the South Caucasus during the 5th to 7th centuries CE. Representing the sound value /qʰ/ or a similar aspirated uvular plosive, this letter corresponds to the alphabetic ordering likely influenced by Armenian and Georgian traditions, part of a larger set of 52 characters discovered through medieval palimpsests and manuscripts. Today, the script and its letters like Qay are of significant historical and linguistic interest, as they preserve a now extinct Northeast Caucasian language, offering scholars insights into the region’s cultural and religious heritage, particularly from early Christian texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10547
Version Added 7.0
Name Caucasian Albanian Letter Qay
Block Caucasian Albanian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐕇
HTML Hex Encoding 𐕇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDD47
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010547
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udd47

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