U+109B5 "𐦵" Meroitic Cursive Letter Te Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐦵
U+109B5 "𐦵" Meroitic Cursive Letter Te is a glyph from the Meroitic script used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan, to write the Meroitic language. This particular character represents the consonant sound "t" and was employed in the cursive form of the script, which was utilised primarily for administrative and everyday writing, whereas the hieroglyphic form was reserved for monumental inscriptions. Scholars deciphered the Meroitic script in the early 20th century, though the language itself remains only partially understood.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+109B5 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meroitic Cursive Letter Te |
| Block | Meroitic Cursive |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐦵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐦵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDDB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000109B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\uddb5 |
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 |