U+10849 "𐡉" Imperial Aramaic Letter Yodh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10849 "𐡉" Imperial Aramaic Letter Yodh is a character from the Imperial Aramaic script, a writing system used by the Achaemenid Empire for administrative and official purposes from approximately the 5th to the 3rd century BCE. This character represents the consonant sound /j/, similar to the English letter Y, and it is the tenth letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding in name and function to the Hebrew Yodh and the Phoenician Yod. The Imperial Aramaic script was widely adopted across the ancient Near East, and its letters, including Yodh, were often written in a distinct, cursive style that influenced later scripts such as Syriac and Nabataean. In modern digital contexts, this character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Imperial Aramaic block, allowing for its accurate representation and preservation in electronic texts and historical linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+10849
Version Added 5.2
Name Imperial Aramaic Letter Yodh
Block Imperial Aramaic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐡉
HTML Hex Encoding 𐡉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC49
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010849
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc49

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