U+10927 "𐤧" Lydian Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤧
U+10927 "𐤧" Lydian Letter Y is a symbol from the Lydian script, an ancient alphabet used to write the Lydian language in what is now western Turkey during the first millennium BCE. This character represents the sound /y/ or /u/ in Lydian, a language that remains only partially understood from limited inscriptions. It forms part of the Lydian block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and linguistic studies of this extinct Anatolian language. The letter's design reflects the unique, angular shapes typical of the Lydian alphabet, which is derived from a version of the Greek alphabet but adapted with distinctive local variations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10927 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lydian Letter Y |
| Block | Lydian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010927 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd27 |