U+10563 "𐕣" Caucasian Albanian Letter Kiw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕣
U+10563 "𐕣" Caucasian Albanian Letter Kiw is a character from the historic Caucasian Albanian script, which was used from the 5th to the 7th century in the region of what is now Azerbaijan and Georgia, primarily to write the Caucasian Albanian language, an early form of Udi. This specific letter, named Kiw, represents a distinct consonant sound in the ancient alphabet, which consisted of 52 characters and was likely developed as a Christian liturgical script. The character fell into disuse for centuries before being added to Unicode, helping preserve this endangered linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10563 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Kiw |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010563 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd63 |
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 |