U+109A0 "𐦠" Meroitic Cursive Letter A Unicode Character

U+109A0 "𐦠" Meroitic Cursive Letter A is a sign from the Meroitic Cursive script, an alphabetic writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (ancient Nubia, in present-day Sudan and southern Egypt) from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This particular character represents the vowel sound /a/ and is written as a continuous, flowing symbol typical of the cursive form, which was used primarily for everyday administrative and legal documents on ostraca and papyrus, as opposed to the more formal Meroitic Hieroglyphs carved in stone. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and study of this historically significant African script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109A0
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter A
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦠
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udda0

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 Cursive
Script Extensions	Meroitic Cursive
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter