U+10998 "𐦘" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ta Unicode Character

U+10998 "𐦘" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ta is a symbol from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific glyph represents the syllabic sound "ta" and belongs to the hieroglyphic form of Meroitic writing, which was typically used for monumental inscriptions on temples, stelae, and royal monuments. The Meroitic script, though derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, was adapted to distinctly symbolize the sounds of the Meroitic language, and the letter Ta illustrates the unique visual and phonetic characteristics that scholars have decoded to understand this once lost civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10998
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Ta
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦘
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD98
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010998
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd98

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