U+10CA9 "𐲩" Old Hungarian Capital Letter Ech Unicode Character
U+10CA9 "𐲩" Old Hungarian Capital Letter Ech is a glyph from the Old Hungarian script, also known as rovásírás, which was used by the Hungarian people before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, primarily between the 7th and 10th centuries. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ch" as in the English word "loch," and it belongs to the uppercase set of letters within the Old Hungarian block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2012 to preserve and digitize this historical writing system. Its visual form is distinctive, featuring angular, rune-like strokes that reflect the script's typical carving into wood or stone, and it is used today in cultural and scholarly contexts to revive and study Hungary's pre-Christian heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10CA9 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Old Hungarian Capital Letter Ech |
| Block | Old Hungarian |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐲩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐲩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDCA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010CA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udca9 |
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 |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| Case Folding | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐳩" U+10CE9 Old Hungarian Small Letter Ech |
| Script | Old Hungarian |
| Script Extensions | Old Hungarian |
| 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 | Upper |