U+10997 "𐦗" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦗
U+10997 "𐦗" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Qa is a script character used in the Meroitic writing system of ancient Nubia, representing the consonantal sound /q/. This hieroglyphic letter belongs to the Meroitic Hieroglyphs block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 to support scholarly transcription and digital preservation of the Meroitic language. The glyph resembles a simplified picture of a seated or kneeling figure, typical of the monumental hieroglyphic form of the script, and it is distinct from the cursive Meroitic counterpart used for everyday writing. Scholars continue to study the Meroitic script, which was deciphered in the early 20th century but still holds many unsolved linguistic mysteries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10997 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Qa |
| Block | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010997 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd97 |
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 |