U+1088A "𐒊" Nabataean Letter Heth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐒊

U+1088A "𐒊" Nabataean Letter Heth is a script character from the Nabataean alphabet, an ancient writing system used by the Nabataean Kingdom from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE. This letter represents the guttural sound /ħ/, similar to the Hebrew letter Het or the Arabic letter Ḁāʼ, and was used to inscribe monumental texts, trade documents, and religious carvings, most notably in the city of Petra. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Nabataean block, allowing for its digital representation and study in modern computing and text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+1088A
Version Added 7.0
Name Nabataean Letter Heth
Block Nabataean
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐢊
HTML Hex Encoding 𐢊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDC8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001088A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udc8a

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