U+10921 "𐤡" Lydian Letter B Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤡
U+10921 "𐤡" Lydian Letter B is a letter from the Lydian alphabet, an ancient script used in the region of Lydia in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from roughly the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. This character represents the voiced bilabial stop sound /b/ and is part of a writing system adapted from the Phoenician alphabet, further influenced by Greek script. The Lydian language, an Indo-European tongue related to Hittite and Luwian, was deciphered from inscriptions found on stone monuments, coins, and pottery, with this letter appearing in words and names that provide valuable historical insights into the culture and economy of the Lydian kingdom, particularly its famous king Croesus and the early use of coinage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10921 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lydian Letter B |
| Block | Lydian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010921 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd21 |