U+10991 "𐦑" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Kha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦑
U+10991 "𐦑" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Kha is a glyph from the Meroitic Hieroglyphic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Meroe, located in present-day Sudan, from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This character represents the sound "kha" (a voiceless velar fricative), and it is part of a syllabic script that evolved from Egyptian hieroglyphs but was adapted to write the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard at version 6.1 in 2012 has enabled digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10991 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Kha |
| Block | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010991 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd91 |
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 |