U+108EB "𐣫" Hatran Letter Lamedh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐣫

U+108EB "𐣫" Hatran Letter Lamedh is part of the Hatran alphabet used to write the Hatran language, a dialect of Aramaic spoken in the ancient city of Hatra in present day Iraq. This letter corresponds to the phoneme /l/ and is the twelfth letter in the Hatran abjad, descending from the Aramaic lamedh. It appears in inscriptions from the 2nd or 3rd century CE, predominantly on stone monuments, statues, and legal documents, reflecting the unique stylized script of the Hatraean civilization. The character was added to Unicode as part of the Hatran block in Version 8.0, enabling modern digital representation of this historical writing system.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐣫
HTML Hex Encoding 𐣫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA3 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDCEB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000108EB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udceb

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