U+1098E "𐦎" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra Unicode Character

U+1098E "𐦎" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra is a sign from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the 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 specific glyph represents a phonetic syllable or sound, often transcribed as "ra" or "re," and is part of a hieroglyphic form of the script that was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs but adapted to write the Meroitic language. The character resembles a stylized human figure or a seated deity, reflecting the visual influence of Egyptian iconography, and it was typically inscribed on monuments, stelae, and temple walls to record royal names, religious texts, and administrative information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1098E
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦎
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001098E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd8e

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