U+109A8 "𐦨" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦨
U+109A8 "𐦨" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ma is a character from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in what is now Sudan, primarily between the 3rd century BCE and the 5th century CE. This specific glyph represents the consonant sound "ma" and is part of a cursive writing system adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts for everyday administrative and religious texts. As a letter in the Meroitic alphabet, it reflects the unique linguistic heritage of the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.1, released in 2012, to support digital encoding and preservation of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109A8 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Ma |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udda8 |
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 |