U+1099B "𐦛" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Te-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦛
U+1099B "𐦛" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Te-2 is a symbol from the Meroitic script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan and southern Egypt) from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This particular character represents a syllable or phonetic sound, specifically a variant of the letter "te" in the Meroitic hieroglyphic writing system, which was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs but adapted for the local Meroitic language. The letter Te-2 is one of several signs used to denote similar sounds, reflecting the script's complexity and its role in inscribing royal monuments, religious texts, and administrative records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1099B |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter Te-2 |
| Block | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001099B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd9b |
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 |