U+10A63 "𐩣" Old South Arabian Letter Mem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩣

U+10A63 "𐩣" Old South Arabian Letter Mem is a grapheme from the ancient script used to write the languages of pre-Islamic South Arabia, such as Sabaic. This character represents the consonant sound equivalent to the modern English letter "M" and was part of an abjad, or consonant-only alphabet, that carved inscriptions on stone and metal monuments from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. Its name "Mem" derives from the name of the corresponding letter in the closely related Ethiopian Ge'ez script and ultimately traces back to the Phoenician alphabet's "Mem," which itself means "water." The Old South Arabian script, including this letter, is written from right to left and is now preserved primarily in archaeological artifacts and scholarly digital standards.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A63
Version Added 5.2
Name Old South Arabian Letter Mem
Block Old South Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩣
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE63
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A63
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude63

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