U+10907 "𐤇" Phoenician Letter Het Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤇
U+10907 "𐤇" Phoenician Letter Het is part of the Phoenician alphabet block and represents the eighth letter of that ancient Semitic script, corresponding to a voiced or voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound akin to a breathy "h" or "ch." Historically, this character derives from the Proto-Sinaitic glyph for "wall" or "courtyard" and is the direct ancestor of the Greek letter Eta (Η, η) as well as the Latin letters H and h, serving as a crucial link in the transmission of writing systems from the ancient Near East to the classical world and into modern Western alphabets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10907 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Het |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD07 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010907 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd07 |