U+10862 "๐กข" Palmyrene Letter Gimel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐กข
U+10862 "๐กข" Palmyrene Letter Gimel is the third letter of the Palmyrene alphabet, a script used between the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. Derived from the Aramaic script, this letter represents the sound /g/ and corresponds to the Phoenician and Hebrew letter Gimel. Palmyrene was employed for both monumental inscriptions and everyday documents in the Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic, and the script fell out of use after the decline of the Palmyrene kingdom. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Palmyrene block, ensuring its digital preservation for historical and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10862 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Gimel |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010862 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc62 |