U+1084F "𐡏" Imperial Aramaic Letter Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡏
U+1084F "𐡏" Imperial Aramaic Letter Ayin is a character from the Imperial Aramaic script, used to represent the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter 'Ayn. This character is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Imperial Aramaic, a historic script employed by the Achaemenid Empire for administrative and official documents from approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. The glyph visually resembles an open circle or loop, reflecting its origins in earlier Phoenician writing, and it serves as a crucial element for encoding ancient Aramaic texts, which have significant historical and linguistic importance for the study of Middle Eastern languages and religions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1084F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Ayin |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001084F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc4f |
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 |