U+1055C "𐕜" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tiwr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕜
U+1055C "𐕜" Caucasian Albanian Letter Tiwr is a letter from the historical Caucasian Albanian alphabet, which was used to write the Caucasian Albanian language between the 5th and 12th centuries CE. This script is believed to have been a vital medium for early Christian texts and inscriptions in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. The letter Tiwr represents a specific sound in the language, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate the digital study of this ancient writing system, which was deciphered largely through medieval Armenian manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1055C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Tiwr |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001055C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd5c |
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 |