U+10896 "𐢖" Nabataean Letter Samekh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐢖
U+10896 "𐢖" Nabataean Letter Samekh is one of the characters in the Nabataean alphabet, an ancient script used between the 2nd century BCE and the 4th century CE by the Nabataean people in the region of modern-day Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula. This letter represents the sound "s" and is derived from the Aramaic letter Samekh, reflecting the strong Aramaic influence on Nabataean writing and culture. The Nabataean script is historically significant as it served as a precursor to the Arabic alphabet, and the inclusion of characters like 𐢖 in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient writing system for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10896 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Nabataean Letter Samekh |
| Block | Nabataean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐢖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐢖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010896 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udc96 |