U+109AE "𐦮" Meroitic Cursive Letter Hha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦮
U+109AE "𐦮" Meroitic Cursive Letter Hha is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, an alphabetic writing system used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan and southern Egypt) from roughly the 1st to 5th centuries AD. This particular letter represents a consonant sound similar to the English "h" and was employed alongside its hieroglyphic counterpart to write the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplemental Multilingual Plane, providing digital representation for scholars studying this historic African civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109AE |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Hha |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\uddae |
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 |