U+10848 "𐡈" Imperial Aramaic Letter Teth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐡈

U+10848 "𐡈" Imperial Aramaic Letter Teth is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, an ancient Semitic writing system used primarily during the Achaemenid Persian Empire from roughly the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. This character represents the ninth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the Phoenician and Hebrew letter teth, which originally denoted a emphatic or pharyngealized "t" sound. Inscribing documents, administrative records, and religious texts in this standardized script, "𐡈" served as a crucial component in the linguistic and bureaucratic infrastructure of the vast Persian realm, bridging languages from Mesopotamia to Egypt. Today, it is preserved in the Unicode standard as part of the Imperial Aramaic block, ensuring that scholars and digital users can accurately represent this historical writing system in modern computing contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10848
Version Added 5.2
Name Imperial Aramaic Letter Teth
Block Imperial Aramaic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐡈
HTML Hex Encoding 𐡈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC48
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010848
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc48

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