U+10937 "𐤷" Lydian Letter Ly Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤷
U+10937 "𐤷" Lydian Letter Ly is a glyph from the Lydian alphabet, which was used to write the Lydian language, an ancient Anatolian tongue spoken in the region of Lydia (modern-day western Turkey) during the first millennium BCE. This particular letter represents the sound /ts/ or a similar affricate, and its shape is derived from the Greek letter Chi or a related Phoenician sign. It is part of the Lydian block in Unicode, encoded to support the scholarly study and digital preservation of the Lydian script, which is known from inscriptions dating primarily from the 8th to 3rd centuries BCE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10937 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lydian Letter Ly |
| Block | Lydian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010937 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd37 |