U+109B1 "𐦱" Meroitic Cursive Letter Se Unicode Character

U+109B1 "𐦱" Meroitic Cursive Letter Se is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from around the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This letter represents a specific phonetic sound in the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered, and it is distinct from the more formal Meroitic hieroglyphic script. Cursive forms like this were typically written with a brush or reed pen on papyrus or ostraca and were used in daily administration, legal documents, and religious texts. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard since version 6.1 enables digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical African script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109B1
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Se
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦱
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDB1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109B1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddb1

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