U+10983 "𐦃" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter O Unicode Character

U+10983 "𐦃" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter O is a symbol from the Meroitic hieroglyphic script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan, to write the Meroitic language from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the sound for the vowel "o" and is part of a writing system that includes both hieroglyphic and cursive forms, the former being more monumental and derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Meroitic script was deciphered in the early 20th century, and the inclusion of this character in Unicode allows for its digital representation and study, preserving a piece of African linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10983
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter O
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦃
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010983
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd83

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