U+10846 "𐡆" Imperial Aramaic Letter Zayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡆
U+10846 "𐡆" Imperial Aramaic Letter Zayin is a distinct glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, an ancient writing system used primarily for the Aramaic language during the Achaemenid Persian Empire, roughly from the 5th to the 3rd century BCE. This character represents the seventh letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the sound "z" as in the English word "zoo." It belongs to the Imperial Aramaic Unicode block, which was added to the standard to support the digital representation of historical texts, particularly inscriptions and documents from this period, such as those found in the Dead Sea Scrolls or on Persian administrative tablets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10846 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Zayin |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010846 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc46 |
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 |