U+10845 "𐡅" Imperial Aramaic Letter Waw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡅
U+10845 "𐡅" Imperial Aramaic Letter Waw is a letter from the Imperial Aramaic script, an ancient writing system used primarily between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE for official and administrative purposes across the Achaemenid Empire. This character represents the consonant sound /w/ and also functioned as a mater lectionis, indicating the long vowel /u/ or /o/ in certain contexts. Its glyph is a single vertical or slightly curved stroke, reflecting the earlier Phoenician and later Syriac letter forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10845 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Waw |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010845 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc45 |
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 |