U+1056F "𐕯" Caucasian Albanian Citation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕯
U+1056F "𐕯" Caucasian Albanian Citation Mark is a punctuation symbol from the historical Caucasian Albanian script, used primarily to indicate the beginning or highlighting of a quoted passage in ancient texts. It resembles a decorative flourish or an angled wedge shape, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the manuscript traditions of the Caucasian Albanian language, which was once spoken in parts of the Caucasus region. This character appears in the Unicode Supplemental Multilingual Plane and is distinct from modern quotation marks, reflecting the script’s unique heritage and scholarly need for accurate representation in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1056F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Citation Mark |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001056F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd6f |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |