U+1090D "𐤍" Phoenician Letter Nun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤍
U+1090D "𐤍" Phoenician Letter Nun is a graphic symbol representing the fourteenth letter of the Phoenician alphabet, corresponding to the consonant sound "n." Its name derives from the Phoenician word for "fish," reflecting the letter's original pictographic origin as a depiction of a fish or serpent. This ancient script, used primarily between 1200 and 300 BCE, served as the precursor to many later alphabets, including Greek and Latin, with Nun evolving into the Greek letter Nu and eventually the Latin N. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Phoenician block, ensuring digital preservation of this historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1090D |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Letter Nun |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001090D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd0d |