U+109BE "𐦾" Meroitic Cursive Logogram Rmt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+109BE "𐦾" Meroitic Cursive Logogram Rmt is a single grapheme from the Meroitic Cursive script, a writing system used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (modern-day Sudan) from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This specific character functions as a logogram, meaning it represents a whole word rather than a sound, and it stands for the word "rmt," which translates to "man" or "human being." As part of the Meroitic Cursive alphabet, which was a simpler, handwritten form of the earlier Meroitic hieroglyphs used primarily for administrative and everyday records, this character provides a direct link to the spoken language of the Meroitic civilization. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars and digital archivists can accurately encode and preserve ancient Kushite texts, facilitating research into a script that was only deciphered in the early 20th century.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐦾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐦾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xA6 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD802 0xDDBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000109BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud802\uddbe |
Unicode Properties