U+1054A "𐕊" Caucasian Albanian Letter Chi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕊
U+1054A "𐕊" Caucasian Albanian Letter Chi is a character from the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, a script historically used to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an extinct language of the northeastern Caucasus region. This specific letter, Chi, is believed to represent an aspirated affricate sound similar to the "ch" in the English word "church." The Caucasian Albanian script, which consists of 52 letters, was rediscovered and deciphered in the 20th century through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of the Caucasian Albanian block, aiding in digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1054A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Chi |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001054A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd4a |
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 |