U+109AF "𐦯" Meroitic Cursive Letter Sa Unicode Character

U+109AF "𐦯" Meroitic Cursive Letter Sa is a glyph representing a consonant in the Meroitic script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (in present-day Sudan) from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE to write the Meroitic language. This cursive form of the script was employed primarily for everyday documents, such as administrative and religious texts, and the letter "Sa" corresponds to the sound /s/ or perhaps /š/ in the language. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for the digital preservation, study, and accurate representation of this ancient writing system, which was only partially deciphered and remains a key subject of archaeological and linguistic research.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦯
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109AF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddaf

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