U+10986 "𐦆" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+10986 "𐦆" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ba is a script character used in the Meroitic writing system of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, which flourished in what is now Sudan and southern Egypt from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This character represents the syllabic sound "ba" in the Meroitic language, and it is part of the hieroglyphic form of the script, which was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs but adapted for writing the indigenous Meroitic language. As one of the 23 letters in the Meroitic hieroglyphic alphabet, it contributes to deciphering the largely undeciphered Meroitic texts, which remain an important focus for scholars studying the history and culture of the Nile Valley.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10986
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ba
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦆
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD86
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010986
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd86

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