U+109A7 "𐦧" Meroitic Cursive Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦧
U+109A7 "𐦧" Meroitic Cursive Letter Pa is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush in present-day Sudan and Egypt to write the Meroitic language. This specific character represents the sound "pa" and is part of a cursive, or handwritten, form of the script that was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphic signs but adapted for a simplified, fluid writing style often employed for administrative and religious texts. It belongs to the Meroitic Cursive block in Unicode, encoding a script that was deciphered in the early 20th century and remains a key source for understanding the history and culture of the Meroitic civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109A7 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Pa |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udda7 |
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 |