U+109AD "𐦭" Meroitic Cursive Letter Kha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦭
U+109AD "𐦭" Meroitic Cursive Letter Kha is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from approximately the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE to write the Meroitic language. This character represents the consonant sound /x/ (like the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch") and is part of a derived, simplified cursive form of the earlier Meroitic hieroglyphic script, typically written from right to left. The Meroitic Cursive script remains only partially deciphered, but the letter Kha, along with other characters, was systematically encoded in Unicode version 6.1 in 2012 to support digital preservation and study of this ancient African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109AD |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Kha |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\uddad |
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 |