U+109BE "𐦾" Meroitic Cursive Logogram Rmt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐦾

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

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

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

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