U+109A9 "𐦩" Meroitic Cursive Letter Na Unicode Character

U+109A9 "𐦩" Meroitic Cursive Letter Na is a specific glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan. This character represents the sound "na" and is part of a cursive writing system that evolved from Egyptian hieratic script, primarily used for administrative, religious, and funerary texts between the 3rd century BCE and the 5th century CE. As a phonetic letter, it contributes to the syllabic nature of the Meroitic alphabet, where each character typically stands for a consonant followed by a vowel.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109A9
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Na
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦩
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udda9

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