U+10852 "𐡒" Imperial Aramaic Letter Qoph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡒
U+10852 "𐡒" Imperial Aramaic Letter Qoph is a character from the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used as a lingua franca of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from approximately the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE. This specific letter represents the voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/, similar to the Arabic letter qaf, and it is the nineteenth letter in the Imperial Aramaic alphabet. The character is encoded in the Unicode Imperial Aramaic block, which was added to support the historical script used in inscriptions and documents across the Near East. Its visual design typically resembles a circle with a vertical or diagonal stroke extending from it, a form that influenced later scripts such as the Hebrew Qof and the Arabic Qaf.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10852 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Qoph |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010852 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc52 |
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 |