U+108E7 "𐣧" Hatran Letter Heth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐣧

U+108E7 "𐣧" Hatran Letter Heth is a letter from the Hatran alphabet, which was used to write the Aramaic language in the ancient city of Hatra, located in present-day northern Iraq, from approximately the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This specific character corresponds to the eighth letter of the Hatran script, representing a guttural or pharyngeal sound similar to the "ḥ" in Semitic languages, and it is typically transliterated as "h" with a subscript dot. The inclusion of this character in Unicode supports the digital preservation and scholarly study of Hatran inscriptions, which are often found on stone monuments and artifacts from the region, offering valuable insights into the religious, political, and social life of the Hatran civilization.

General Properties

Code Point U+108E7
Version Added 8.0
Name Hatran Letter Heth
Block Hatran
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐣧
HTML Hex Encoding 𐣧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA3 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDCE7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000108E7
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udce7

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