U+10A61 "𐩡" Old South Arabian Letter Lamedh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩡

U+10A61 "𐩡" Old South Arabian Letter Lamedh is a glyph from the Old South Arabian script, an ancient abjad used to write the languages of the Sabaean, Minaean, Qatabanian, and Hadramautic civilizations in the southern Arabian Peninsula from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This particular letter represents the sound /l/ and is derived from the corresponding Proto-Sinaitic or Phoenician character for "lamedh," which likely originates from an earlier pictographic symbol for a goad or staff. Inscribing monumental texts, religious dedications, and royal chronicles on stone or bronze, the script was written from right to left, and "𐩡" is the twelfth letter in the Old South Arabian alphabet, reflecting the cultural and linguistic heritage of pre-Islamic Yemen.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A61
Version Added 5.2
Name Old South Arabian Letter Lamedh
Block Old South Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩡
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE61
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A61
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude61

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