U+102BC "𐊼" Carian Letter K Unicode Character

U+102BC "𐊼" Carian Letter K is a glyph from the Carian alphabet, an ancient script used to write the Carian language in regions of western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the first millennium BCE. This specific letter represents the sound /k/ and is part of a syllabic alphabet that was deciphered in the late 20th century, revealing a language related to Luwian within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family. The character is encoded in the Unicode Carian block, which spans from U+102A0 to U+102DF and was introduced in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this extinct writing system.