U+109AC "𐦬" Meroitic Cursive Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦬
U+109AC "𐦬" Meroitic Cursive Letter La is a glyph representing the syllable "la" in the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (ancient Nubia) from approximately the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This cursive form, derived from Egyptian hieratic writing, was employed for everyday administrative and religious texts, while a separate hieroglyphic style served monumental inscriptions. The symbol belongs to the Meroitic Cursive block of the Unicode Standard, encoded to support digital preservation and scholarly study of this undeciphered Afro-Asiatic language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109AC |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter La |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\uddac |
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 |