U+10981 "𐦁" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter E Unicode Character

U+10981 "𐦁" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter E is a script symbol from the Meroitic Hieroglyphic block, used to represent the sound "e" in the ancient Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Kush in present-day Sudan. It is part of a writing system that adapted Egyptian hieroglyphs to a local phonetic use, often carved in stone monuments and temples between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE. The character holds historical significance as a key component of a still partially deciphered script that records the only known indigenous African writing system from the Nile Valley before the Common Era.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10981
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter E
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦁
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010981
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd81

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