U+10860 "𐡠" Palmyrene Letter Aleph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐡠
U+10860 "𐡠" Palmyrene Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Palmyrene alphabet, representing the glottal stop sound /ʔ/ and serving as the direct ancestor of the letter "aleph" in later Semitic scripts like Hebrew and Arabic. This character was used in the ancient Palmyrene script, which flourished between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in the city of Palmyra in modern-day Syria, primarily for inscribing monumental inscriptions and economic documents. As part of the Palmyrene block in Unicode, it preserves a vital piece of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Aramaic-speaking peoples of the Near East.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10860 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Aleph |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010860 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc60 |