U+10988 "𐦈" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦈
U+10988 "𐦈" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Pa is a symbol from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. Representing the phonetic sound /pa/, this hieroglyphic letter is part of a set of signs that were derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs but adapted to write the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode standard allows for the digital preservation and study of Meroitic texts, aiding scholars in understanding the culture and history of the Nubian civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10988 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Pa |
| Block | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010988 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd88 |
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 |