U+10A60 "𐩠" Old South Arabian Letter He Unicode Character

U+10A60 "𐩠" Old South Arabian Letter He is a glyph representing the twenty-third letter of the Old South Arabian script, an abjad used between approximately the 9th century BCE and the 6th century CE to write the ancient Semitic languages of the Yemeni region, such as Sabaic. This character corresponds to the Semitic consonant "h" and is structurally characterized by a distinctive vertical stem with a small horizontal wedge or "head" at the top, reflecting the monumental inscriptional style typical of Old South Arabian texts found on stone stelae and bronze plaques. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard facilitates digital preservation, scholarly research, and accurate representation of this ancient writing system in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A60
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter He
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩠
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE60
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A60
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude60

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	Old South Arabian
Script Extensions	Old South Arabian
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