U+10841 "π‘" Imperial Aramaic Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10841 "π‘" Imperial Aramaic Letter Beth is the second letter of the Imperial Aramaic script, historically used across the Achaemenid Empire from around the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE for administrative and official inscriptions. This character represents the voiced bilabial stop sound /b/ and is derived from an earlier Phoenician glyph, serving as the direct ancestor of the Hebrew letter Bet, the Syriac Beth, and the Arabic BΔΚΌ. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Imperial Aramaic block (U+10840–U+1085F), which was added to support the digital encoding of this ancient writing system for scholarly and historical text preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10841 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Beth |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010841 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc41 |
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 | Imperial Aramaic |
| Script Extensions | Imperial Aramaic |
| 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 |