U+109B3 "𐦳" Meroitic Cursive Letter Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦳
U+109B3 "𐦳" Meroitic Cursive Letter Qa is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, a writing system used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (centered in present-day Sudan) from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This particular letter represents the consonant sound /q/ (a voiceless uvular plosive) and is part of a cursive, simplified form of the older Meroitic hieroglyphic script, which was used for administrative, funerary, and everyday texts. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2012 as part of the Meroitic Cursive block, helping to preserve and digitally encode this historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109B3 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Qa |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\uddb3 |
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 |