U+1054D "𐕍" Caucasian Albanian Letter Qar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕍
U+1054D "𐕍" Caucasian Albanian Letter Qar is a letter from the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, an ancient script used between the 5th and 12th centuries to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an early form of the Udi language spoken in the Caucasus region. This specific character represents the sound /q/, a voiceless uvular plosive, and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to this historical script, which was added to the standard in 2018 to support scholarly research and digital preservation of Caucasian Albanian texts. Its inclusion helps ensure that inscriptions and manuscripts from this cultural heritage can be accurately rendered in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1054D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Qar |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001054D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd4d |
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 |