U+10903 "𐤃" Phoenician Letter Delt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐤃

U+10903 "𐤃" Phoenician Letter Delt is the fourth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar plosive sound /d/ and corresponding to the Greek letter Delta and the Latin letter D. Its name derives from the Phoenician word for "door," and the glyph itself evolved from an earlier pictographic symbol of a door or tent flap. As part of the Phoenician script, which emerged around 1050 BCE and served as the ancestor of many modern alphabets, this letter played a foundational role in the development of writing systems across the Mediterranean.

General Properties

Code Point U+10903
Version Added 5.0
Name Phoenician Letter Delt
Block Phoenician
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐤃
HTML Hex Encoding 𐤃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDD03
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010903
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udd03

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 Phoenician
Script Extensions Phoenician
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