U+109B0 "𐦰" Meroitic Cursive Letter Archaic Sa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+109B0 "𐦰" Meroitic Cursive Letter Archaic Sa is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (in present-day Sudan) between roughly the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE. This specific character represents an archaic form of the letter "sa," one of the syllabic signs in the Meroitic writing system that could denote the sound "s" followed by an inherent vowel or serve as a consonant alone. Unlike formal Meroitic hieroglyphs, the cursive script was a more streamlined, flowing style employed for everyday administrative and religious documents. The archaic nature of this particular "sa" suggests it preserves an earlier or less common variant of the letter, distinguishing it from later standardized cursive forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+109B0
Version Added 6.1
Name Meroitic Cursive Letter Archaic Sa
Block Meroitic Cursive
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐦰
HTML Hex Encoding 𐦰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDDB0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000109B0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\uddb0

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