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

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 Lydian
Script Extensions Lydian
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