U+10550 "𐕐" Caucasian Albanian Letter Shak Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10550 "𐕐" Caucasian Albanian Letter Shak is a glyph from the historical Caucasian Albanian alphabet, an ancient script used from the 5th to 7th centuries CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, primarily in the region of present-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. This letter, named Shak, represents a specific consonant sound in that language and is part of a set of 52 characters that were deciphered from medieval manuscripts and archaeological inscriptions. Its encoding in Unicode Standard version 7.0 in 2014 ensures digital preservation and scholarly access to this rare script, which is associated with the early Christian cultural heritage of the Caucasus.

General Properties

Code Point U+10550
Version Added 7.0
Name Caucasian Albanian Letter Shak
Block Caucasian Albanian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐕐
HTML Hex Encoding 𐕐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD801 0xDD50
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010550
C/C++/Java Escape \ud801\udd50

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