U+10853 "𐡓" Imperial Aramaic Letter Resh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡓
U+10853 "𐡓" Imperial Aramaic Letter Resh is a glyph from the Imperial Aramaic script, an ancient Semitic writing system used primarily by the Achaemenid Empire from roughly the 6th to the 4th century BCE for administrative and official purposes. This specific character represents the consonant sound "r" and is the twentieth letter in the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, deriving from an earlier Phoenician ancestor. The letter Resh appears in inscriptions and manuscripts that document the widespread use of Aramaic as a lingua franca across the Near East, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and study of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10853 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Imperial Aramaic Letter Resh |
| Block | Imperial Aramaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010853 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc53 |
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 |