U+10A68 "𐩨" Old South Arabian Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐩨
U+10A68 "𐩨" Old South Arabian Letter Beth is an ancient script glyph representing the second letter of the Old South Arabian alphabet, corresponding to the Semitic letter "bet" and phonetically indicating the sound /b/. Found in inscriptions from the pre-Islamic civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula, such as the Sabaean, Minaean, and Himyarite kingdoms, this letter was used in the recording of monumental texts, trade records, and religious dedications on stone, metal, and pottery. The Old South Arabian script was written from right to left and is a direct ancestor of the modern Ethiopic Ge'ez writing system, making this character a key link in the historical development of Semitic orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A68 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old South Arabian Letter Beth |
| Block | Old South Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐩨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐩨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude68 |
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 |