U+102B8 Carian Letter Ss
U+102B8 was added in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Carian script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+102B8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. They consisted of some 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nile delta, where Carian mercenaries fought for the Egyptian pharaohs. They were written left-to-right in Caria (apart from the CarianβLydian city of Tralleis) and right-to-left in Egypt.
Carian was deciphered primarily through EgyptianβCarian bilingual tomb inscriptions, starting with John Ray in 1981; previously only a few sound values and the alphabetic nature of the script had been demonstrated. The readings of Ray and subsequent scholars were largely confirmed with a CarianβGreek bilingual inscription discovered in Kaunos in 1996, which for the first time verified personal names, but the identification of many letters remains provisional and debated, and a few are wholly unknown.
The Carian alphabet resembles the Greek alphabet, but the exact Greek variant from which it could have originated, has not yet been identified. The main reason for this is that some of the Greek letters have different sound values in Carian. Two hypotheses have been suggested to explain this. The first is that the Greek letters were randomly attributed to phonetic values; though some letters retained their Greek value. The second proposed by Adiego (2007), is "that the Carian alphabet underwent a strong process of cursivisation, dramatically changing the form of many letters. At a certain point this graphic system underwent a change to 'capital' letters, for which the Greek capital letters were used as models - but now only from a formal point of view, disregarding their phonetic values (...).".
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 66232 |
UTF-8 | F0 90 8A B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 00 DE B8 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 02 B8 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%90%8A%B8 |
HTML hex reference | 𐊸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΕ ΒΈ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 30 C6 36 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CARIAN LETTER SS | |
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Carian | |
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Carian | |
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Other | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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