U+10A66 "𐩦" Old South Arabian Letter Shin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐩦
U+10A66 "𐩦" Old South Arabian Letter Shin is a glyph representing a consonant from the script used to write the ancient Semitic languages of South Arabia, such as Sabaic and Minaic. Belonging to the Old South Arabian block, this character corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ or "sh" and was historically inscribed in a distinctive monumental style on stone or metal artifacts. The letter is part of a writing system that dates from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE and is closely related to the Ge'ez script of Ethiopia. Today, "𐩦" is encoded for digital representation to aid scholarly research in epigraphy and historical linguistics, preserving a key element of the region's pre-Islamic cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A66 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old South Arabian Letter Shin |
| Block | Old South Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐩦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐩦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A66 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude66 |
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 |