U+10556 "𐕖" Caucasian Albanian Letter Chat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕖
U+10556 "𐕖" Caucasian Albanian Letter Chat is a character from the historical Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an early Northeast Caucasian language. This specific letter represents the sound /tʃʰ/ and is part of a script that was rediscovered through a 15th-century Armenian manuscript and later added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0 to support the digital preservation of ancient scripts. It is classified under the Caucasian Albanian block and is one of 48 known distinct letters in that alphabet, helping scholars and linguists study the region’s early literary and religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10556 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Chat |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010556 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd56 |
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 |