U+109A6 "𐦦" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦦
U+109A6 "𐦦" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ba is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE to write the Meroitic language. This script, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, evolved into a cursive form for more practical daily writing, and the letter "Ba" represents a specific consonantal sound. Unlike the blockier Meroitic Hieroglyphic signs, the cursive version features a flowing, interconnected style typical of handwriting. The character is part of the Unicode Standard's Meroitic Cursive block, allowing for its digital representation and study in modern computing contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109A6 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Ba |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udda6 |
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 |