U+1054E "𐕎" Caucasian Albanian Letter Nowc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕎
U+1054E "𐕎" Caucasian Albanian Letter Nowc is a glyph representing a letter from the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was historically used to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an ancient Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. This alphabet consisted of 52 letters and was primarily employed from the 5th to the 7th century CE for religious and administrative texts, with the letter Nowc corresponding to a specific phonetic sound in that language. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of version 11.0, helping to preserve and digitally represent this historic script for linguistic research and cultural heritage purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1054E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Nowc |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001054E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd4e |
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 |