U+10980 "𐦀" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter A Unicode Character

U+10980 "𐦀" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter A is a symbol from the Meroitic script used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, a major civilization in what is now Sudan, predominantly between 300 BCE and 400 CE. This specific glyph represents the vowel sound "a" and is one of the 23 hieroglyphic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs for writing the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.1, released in January 2012, as part of the Meroitic Hieroglyphs block, enabling digital representation and study of this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10980
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter A
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦀
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD80
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010980
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd80

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	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Script Extensions	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter