U+109A2 "𐦢" Meroitic Cursive Letter I Unicode Character

U+109A2 "𐦢" Meroitic Cursive Letter I is a glyph used in the Meroitic script, a writing system from ancient Nubia (present-day Sudan) that was employed from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This particular character represents the vowel sound "i" in the cursive form of the script, which was a simplified, joined style used for everyday administrative and religious documents, distinct from the more monumental hieroglyphic variant. The Meroitic Cursive script was deciphered in the early 20th century, and U+109A2 belongs to the Unicode block dedicated to Meroitic Cursive, helping preserve this historical language for modern digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109A2
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter I
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦢
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109A2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udda2

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