U+10913 "𐤓" Phoenician Letter Rosh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐤓

U+10913 "𐤓" Phoenician Letter Rosh is a glyph representing the twentieth letter of the Phoenician abjad, which corresponds to the sound "r" and is the direct ancestor of the Latin letter R and the Greek letter Rho. This character derives its name "Rosh," meaning "head" in Semitic languages, reflecting the pictographic origin of the letter as a simplified depiction of a human head or profile. In the Phoenician script, Rosh held the numerical value of 200 and was used extensively in the trade and administrative records of ancient maritime civilizations. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard for digital representation, enabling scholars and typographers to accurately reproduce Phoenician epigraphic texts in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+10913
Version Added 5.0
Name Phoenician Letter Rosh
Block Phoenician
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐤓
HTML Hex Encoding 𐤓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDD13
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010913
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udd13

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