U+10884 "𐢄" Nabataean Letter Gimel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐢄

U+10884 "𐢄" Nabataean Letter Gimel is a glyph from the Nabataean script, which was historically used by the Nabataean people from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE primarily in and around present-day Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula. This character represents the third letter of the Nabataean abjad, corresponding to the Semitic letter Gimel, which has the phonetic value of a voiced velar plosive /g/. The letter's shape, derived from earlier Aramaic forms, later evolved into the cursive style characteristic of Nabataean writing, and it is notably considered a direct ancestor of the Arabic letter ج (jīm) and the modern Arabic numeral for 3. Inclusion of this character in Unicode supports scholarly research and digital preservation of the Nabataean language and its inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+10884
Version Added 7.0
Name Nabataean Letter Gimel
Block Nabataean
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐢄
HTML Hex Encoding 𐢄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC84
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010884
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc84

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 Nabataean
Script Extensions Nabataean
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