U+1084E "𐡎" Imperial Aramaic Letter Samekh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡎
U+1084E "𐡎" Imperial Aramaic Letter Samekh is a symbol from the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used as a lingua franca across the Achaemenid Empire from roughly the 6th to the 4th century BCE. It represents the consonant sound equivalent to the English "s" and corresponds to the fifteenth letter of the Aramaic alphabet, named Samekh. This character is part of the Unicode block for Imperial Aramaic and is typically written from right to left, reflecting the script's Semitic origins.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1084E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Samekh |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001084E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc4e |
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 |