U+10861 "๐กก" Palmyrene Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐กก
U+10861 "๐กก" Palmyrene Letter Beth is the second letter of the Palmyrene alphabet, a script used in the ancient city of Palmyra (modern-day Syria) from around the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This character represents the consonant sound /b/, akin to the English letter B, and is derived from the earlier Aramaic script, reflecting the historical and cultural ties between Palmyrene and other Semitic writing systems. As part of the Palmyrene block in Unicode, it was encoded to preserve and digitally represent the epigraphic evidence of this extinct language, which was crucial for trade and administrative records in the Roman era.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10861 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Beth |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010861 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc61 |