U+10883 "𐢃" Nabataean Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐢃
U+10883 "𐢃" Nabataean Letter Beth is a glyph belonging to the Nabataean script, an ancient writing system used by the Nabataean people from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE to write their Aramaic dialect, most famously in the city of Petra. This particular letter represents the consonant sound "b," akin to the Hebrew beth or the Arabic ba, and serves as the second letter of the Nabataean alphabet, which evolved from Aramaic and later influenced the development of the Arabic script. In historical inscriptions, Nabataean Letter Beth appears in contexts such as trade records, tomb dedications, and religious decrees, reflecting the Nabataeans' role as a major commercial and cultural civilization in the ancient Near East.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10883 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Nabataean Letter Beth |
| Block | Nabataean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐢃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐢃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010883 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc83 |