U+10553 "𐕓" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tyay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕓
U+10553 "𐕓" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tyay is part of the Caucasian Albanian alphabet, a script used from the 5th to the 7th century to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an early Northeast Caucasian language spoken in what is now Azerbaijan and parts of Dagestan. This particular letter represents the sound "ty" and is one of 52 characters in the alphabet, which was rediscovered in the 20th century through manuscripts and inscriptions. The script is historically significant for its role in recording early Christian texts in the region, and the character was included in Unicode version 7.0 as part of an effort to preserve endangered scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10553 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Tyay |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010553 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd53 |
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 |