U+109A4 "𐦤" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+109A4 "𐦤" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ya is a glyph used in the Meroitic Cursive script, which was employed to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "ya" and is part of a cursive form derived from the earlier Meroitic Hieroglyphic signs, adapted for everyday writing on ostraca and papyrus. The Meroitic script itself remains only partially deciphered, but the letter Ya, along with other characters, was used primarily between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE before the script fell into disuse.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109A4
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Ya
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦤
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udda4

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