U+10851 "𐡑" Imperial Aramaic Letter Sadhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡑
U+10851 "𐡑" Imperial Aramaic Letter Sadhe is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, used primarily in the Achaemenid Empire from around the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE for administrative and official inscriptions. This letter represents the emphatic fricative or affricate sound, similar to the English "ts" or the Hebrew Tsadi, and is part of a 22 letter alphabet that served as a key precursor to later scripts such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and scholarly study of ancient Near Eastern texts, particularly those found on artifacts like papyri, coins, and stone monuments from the Persian period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10851 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Sadhe |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010851 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc51 |
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 |