U+10842 "𐡂" Imperial Aramaic Letter Gimel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡂
U+10842 "𐡂" Imperial Aramaic Letter Gimel is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used as a lingua franca across the Achaemenid Persian Empire from roughly the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. This character represents the third letter of the Aramaic abjad, pronounced like the English "g" in "garden" and is historically derived from the Phoenician letter gimel. In its visual form, it resembles a bent or angled line, reflecting its cursive and chiseled origins in ancient inscriptions and documents. This character is part of the Unicode block for Imperial Aramaic, enabling modern digital representation of a key writing system that influenced later scripts such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10842 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Gimel |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010842 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc42 |
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 |