U+10A65 "𐩥" Old South Arabian Letter Waw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩥

U+10A65 "𐩥" Old South Arabian Letter Waw is a character used in the writing system of the ancient South Arabian script, which was employed by civilizations such as the Sabaeans, Minaeans, and Himyarites on the Arabian Peninsula from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This particular letter represents the consonant "w" and holds a phonetic value similar to the English letter W. It belongs to the block called Old South Arabian, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2 to enable digital preservation and study of these historical inscriptions, often found on stone monuments and artifacts. The glyph of the character is a geometric shape typical of the script's angular, cursive style, reflecting its origins as a carved script.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A65
Version Added 5.2
Name Old South Arabian Letter Waw
Block Old South Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩥
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE65
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A65
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude65

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