U+1054A "𐕊" Caucasian Albanian Letter Chi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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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