U+10902 "𐤂" Phoenician Letter Gaml Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤂
U+10902 "𐤂" Phoenician Letter Gaml is the third letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing the sound /ɡ/ as in the English "go." Derived from the Proto-Canaanite script, its name "Gaml" means "camel," and its shape is believed to derive from a pictographic representation of a camel's hump or neck. This letter is the direct ancestor of the Greek letter Gamma (Γ, γ) and subsequently the Latin letters C and G. In the context of Unicode, it belongs to the Phoenician script block, designated for encoding the ancient Semitic writing system that was the precursor to many modern alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10902 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Gaml |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010902 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd02 |