U+108E0 "𐣠" Hatran Letter Aleph Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐣠

U+108E0 "𐣠" Hatran Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Hatran alphabet, a script used to write the Hatran Aramaic language in the ancient city of Hatra, located in present-day Iraq. This character represents the glottal stop consonant sound typically associated with the Semitic letter Aleph, and it was employed in inscriptions dating from roughly the late 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Hatran script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 as part of version 9.0, consists of 28 letters written from right to left, and this particular letter plays a foundational role in the alphabet by often marking the beginning of a word or indicating a vowel in certain contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+108E0
Version Added 8.0
Name Hatran Letter Aleph
Block Hatran
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐣠
HTML Hex Encoding 𐣠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA3 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDCE0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000108E0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udce0

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 Hatran
Script Extensions Hatran
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