U+10855 "𐡕" Imperial Aramaic Letter Taw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐡕

U+10855 "𐡕" Imperial Aramaic Letter Taw is a written symbol from the Imperial Aramaic script, historically used from about the 5th to the 3rd century BCE for official and administrative documents across the Achaemenid Persian Empire. This specific character represents the twenty-second and final letter of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, corresponding to the Phoenician and Hebrew letter "Taw," which typically carries the sound /t/ (as in English "tall"). Its shape in this script is a distinctive X-like cross or rotated square with crossed lines, differing from later cursive forms. The character belongs to the Unicode block "Imperial Aramaic," which was added to support the encoding of this ancient writing system in digital text, allowing for accurate representation of historical inscriptions and scholarly works.

General Properties

Code Point U+10855
Version Added 5.2
Name Imperial Aramaic Letter Taw
Block Imperial Aramaic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐡕
HTML Hex Encoding 𐡕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010855
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc55

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