U+10557 "𐕗" Caucasian Albanian Letter Pen Unicode Character

U+10557 "𐕗" Caucasian Albanian Letter Pen is a character from the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient writing system used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE primarily to record the Udi language in the historical region of Caucasian Albania, located in parts of present-day Azerbaijan and Dagestan. This specific letter, named "Pen," corresponds to a consonantal sound in the language and forms part of an alphabet invented by the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots, who also created the Armenian and Georgian scripts. The character was included in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane in 2014 as part of the Caucasian Albanian block, enabling digital preservation and study of this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10557
Version Added	7.0
Name	Caucasian Albanian Letter Pen
Block	Caucasian Albanian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐕗
HTML Hex Encoding	𐕗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDD57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010557
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udd57

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