U+1086F "๐กฏ" Palmyrene Letter Samekh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐กฏ
U+1086F "๐กฏ" Palmyrene Letter Samekh is a glyph from the Palmyrene script, an ancient Semitic alphabet used to write the Aramaic language in the city of Palmyra and its surrounding regions from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This character represents the consonant sound "s", analogous to the Hebrew samekh or the Syriac semkath, and was inscribed in both monumental and cursive forms on stone monuments, trade documents, and religious artifacts. As part of the Palmyrene block in Unicode, it preserves the historical writing system of a once thriving desert oasis kingdom, helping scholars and digital typographers accurately render and study the language's inscriptions in modern text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1086F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Palmyrene Letter Samekh |
| Block | Palmyrene |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐡯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐡯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001086F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc6f |