U+10989 "𐦉" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦉
U+10989 "𐦉" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ma is part of the Meroitic Hieroglyphic block, which encodes the ancient script used in the Kingdom of Kush, in present-day Sudan, from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This particular glyph represents the syllabic sound "ma" in the Meroitic writing system, a script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs but adapted to the local Meroitic language. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.1, released in 2012, under the category of other letters, and it is a key component for scholars and digital typographers working to accurately represent and preserve the inscriptions and texts of this historical civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10989 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ma |
| Block | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010989 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd89 |
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 |