U+1098F "𐦏" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra-2 Unicode Character

U+1098F "𐦏" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra-2 is a script symbol from the Meroitic Hieroglyphic block, which was used to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush in present-day Sudan. This specific character represents a variant form of the letter "ra," distinguished by its unique hieroglyphic shape compared to other renderings of the same sound in the writing system. Deciphered primarily through bilingual inscriptions, Meroitic Hieroglyphic writing remains only partially understood, and "Ra-2" provides valuable insight into the phonetic and orthographic diversity of this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1098F
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ra-2
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦏
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001098F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd8f

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