U+1086A "𐡪" Palmyrene Letter Kaph Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐡪

U+1086A "𐡪" Palmyrene Letter Kaph is part of the Palmyrene alphabet, an ancient Semitic script originating from the city of Palmyra in present day Syria. This specific character represents the consonant sound "k" and is used in inscriptions and documents from the Palmyrene Empire dating between the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE. It belongs to the Palmyrene block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 to encode historical scripts for scholarly and digital preservation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+1086A
Version Added 7.0
Name Palmyrene Letter Kaph
Block Palmyrene
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐡪
HTML Hex Encoding 𐡪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC6A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001086A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc6a

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 Palmyrene
Script Extensions Palmyrene
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