U+109B7 "𐦷" Meroitic Cursive Letter Da Unicode Character

U+109B7 "𐦷" Meroitic Cursive Letter Da is a glyph from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE to write the Meroitic language. This particular character represents the syllabic sound "da" and is part of a cursive, flowing script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, primarily employed for everyday administrative and religious texts. As a letter in the Meroitic alphabet, "Da" contributes to the written record of a sophisticated ancient civilization, with its inclusion in Unicode helping to preserve and digitally enable the study of this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109B7
Version Added	6.1
Name	Meroitic Cursive Letter Da
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐦷
HTML Hex Encoding	𐦷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDB7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddb7

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