U+1099C "𐦜" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter To Unicode Character

U+1099C "𐦜" Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter To is a glyph representing a syllable 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 particular character corresponds to the syllabic sound "to" and belongs to the hieroglyphic variant of the script, which was adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs to write the Meroitic language. It is primarily found in monumental inscriptions and stelae, offering valuable insight into the religious and administrative life of the Meroitic civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1099C
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Hieroglyphic Letter To
Block	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦜
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001099C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd9c

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