U+10909 "𐤉" Phoenician Letter Yod Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤉
U+10909 "𐤉" Phoenician Letter Yod is the tenth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing a consonant sound similar to the English "y" and serving as the direct ancestor of the Greek letter Iota, the Latin letter I, and the Cyrillic letter І. Carved into stone and metal inscriptions across the ancient Mediterranean world from around the 11th century BCE, this character held both phonetic and symbolic importance, often associated with the word for "hand" (yad) due to its pictographic origin as a depiction of a forearm and hand. As a key element of the Phoenician writing system, Yod helped spread alphabetic literacy through trade networks, ultimately influencing the development of many modern scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10909 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Yod |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010909 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd09 |