U+10957 "" Sidetic Letter N24 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10957 "" Sidetic Letter N24 is a script symbol used in the Sidetic alphabet, an ancient writing system derived from Phoenician script that was employed in the region of Sidon and other parts of Phoenicia (modern-day Lebanon) during the Hellenistic period. This specific character represents a consonant with a phonetic value that remains only partially understood by scholars due to the limited corpus of surviving Sidetic inscriptions. The letter is part of a block added to the Unicode Standard under version 7.0 in 2014, which aimed to digitally encode this rare and historical script for linguistic research and digital preservation, allowing for the accurate representation of ancient Phoenician dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10957 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Sidetic Letter N24 |
| Block | Sidetic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐥗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐥗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA5 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010957 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd57 |