U+10A69 "𐩩" Old South Arabian Letter Taw Unicode Character

U+10A69 "𐩩" Old South Arabian Letter Taw is a grapheme from the ancient South Arabian script, which was used to write various languages of the southern Arabian Peninsula, such as Sabaic, from around the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This letter represented the phonetic sound /t/, similar to the English "t", and is the final character in the Old South Arabian alphabet, corresponding to the Hebrew Tav or the Arabic Ta. Carved into stone inscriptions and written in a distinctive boustrophedon style, "Taw" serves as a vital key for modern scholars deciphering the rich historical records of pre-Islamic Arabian civilizations, including their trade, rituals, and monumental dedications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A69
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Taw
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩩
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE69
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A69
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude69

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