U+10881 "𐢁" Nabataean Letter Aleph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐢁
U+10881 "𐢁" Nabataean Letter Aleph is a script symbol used in the ancient Nabataean alphabet, which was employed by the Nabataean civilization for writing their Aramaic dialect from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This character represents the first letter of the Nabataean alphabet, corresponding to the Semitic glottal stop sound, and it is derived from earlier Aramaic scripts. The Nabataean script ultimately influenced the development of the Arabic alphabet, making this character historically significant in tracing the evolution of writing in the Middle East.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10881 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Nabataean Letter Aleph |
| Block | Nabataean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐢁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐢁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010881 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc81 |