U+10A62 "𐩢" Old South Arabian Letter Heth Unicode Character

U+10A62 "𐩢" Old South Arabian Letter Heth is a glyph from the Old South Arabian script, which was used to write the ancient Semitic languages of the Arabian Peninsula, such as Sabaic, Minaic, and Qatabanic. This letter likely represented a voiceless pharyngeal fricative or a similar guttural sound, corresponding to the Semitic letter Heth, and was inscribed on stone monuments and artifacts dating from roughly the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and study of these pre-Islamic inscriptions, aiding linguists and historians in analyzing the rich textual heritage of ancient Yemen and surrounding regions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A62
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Heth
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩢
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE62
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A62
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude62

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