U+109B4 "𐦴" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ta Unicode Character

U+109B4 "𐦴" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ta is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ta" and was derived from earlier Egyptian hieroglyphic influences, adapted into a more flowing, cursive form for everyday administrative and religious inscriptions. The Meroitic script was deciphered in the early 20th century, though the language itself remains only partially understood, and this letter is part of the Unicode Standard's Meroitic Cursive block, which was included in version 8.0 in 2015 to preserve and digitally encode this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109B4
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Ta
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦴
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDB4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddb4

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