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# age

The earliest version of the Unicode Standard in which the scalar was
assigned.

```
var age: Unicode.Version? { get }
```

## Discussion

This value is `nil` for code points that have not yet been assigned.

This property corresponds to the “Age” property in the
[Unicode Standard](http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/).

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