U+109A5 "𐦥" Meroitic Cursive Letter Wa Unicode Character

U+109A5 "𐦥" Meroitic Cursive Letter Wa is a symbol from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used between approximately 300 BCE and 600 CE to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan. This specific character represents the consonant sound "w" and is part of a cursive writing system that developed from Egyptian hieratic script, primarily used for administrative and religious texts. The Meroitic script, including this letter, was deciphered in the early 20th century and provides crucial insight into the language and culture of a civilization that flourished along the Nile before the rise of Christian Nubia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109A5
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Wa
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦥
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udda5

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