U+10550 "𐕐" Caucasian Albanian Letter Shak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕐
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 |