U+10843 "𐡃" Imperial Aramaic Letter Daleth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10843 "𐡃" Imperial Aramaic Letter Daleth is a glyph representing the fourth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the Semitic letter daleth, which historically denoted the voiced dental plosive sound /d/. This character belongs to the Imperial Aramaic script block, a writing system used primarily for administrative and official documents within the Achaemenid Persian Empire from approximately the 5th to the 3rd century BCE. It is typically written in a right-to-left direction and can be distinguished by its angular, open form, which evolved from earlier Phoenician scripts. The daleth serves as one of the 22 letters in the Imperial Aramaic abjad and is encoded as a historic script character in the Unicode Standard for digital representation and preservation of ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10843
Version Added 5.2
Name Imperial Aramaic Letter Daleth
Block Imperial Aramaic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐡃
HTML Hex Encoding 𐡃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010843
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc43

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