U+10844 "𐡄" Imperial Aramaic Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡄
U+10844 "𐡄" Imperial Aramaic Letter He is a glyph representing the fifth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, used primarily in official inscriptions and documents of the Achaemenid Empire from approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. This letter corresponds to the Semitic consonant "h" and is derived from the earlier Phoenician script, serving as a precursor to later writing systems such as the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. Its encoded form in the Unicode Standard allows modern scholars and enthusiasts to digitally preserve and reproduce ancient Aramaic texts, aiding in historical and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10844 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter He |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010844 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc44 |
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 |