U+10900 "𐤀" Phoenician Letter Alf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤀
U+10900 "𐤀" Phoenician Letter Alf is an ancient character representing the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, derived from the Proto-Canaanite script and ancestral to the Greek Alpha and the Latin A. Its name "Alf" means "ox" in Phoenician, reflecting the letter's origin as a pictograph of an ox head, and it was used in the writing system of the Phoenician civilization, a major Semitic culture that flourished around 1500 to 300 BCE along the eastern Mediterranean coast. This character is part of the Phoenician Unicode block, which was added to the standard in 2010 to preserve and digitally represent this historically significant script for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10900 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Alf |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010900 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd00 |