U+10990 "𐦐" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter La Unicode Character

U+10990 "𐦐" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter La is a symbol from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Meroë, located in present-day Sudan, from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific hieroglyph represents the syllabic sound "la" and is part of a set of characters derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, adapted to write the Meroitic language. The glyph itself depicts a stylized lion or a similar feline figure, reflecting the artistic conventions of Meroitic monumental inscriptions found on temples, stelae, and royal tombs. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures digital preservation and facilitates academic study and modern display of this historically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10990
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter La
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦐
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010990
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd90

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