U+10A6A "𐩪" Old South Arabian Letter Sat Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩪

U+10A6A "𐩪" Old South Arabian Letter Sat is a glyph representing a consonant from the ancient script used to write the Old South Arabian languages, including Sabaic, Qatabanic, and Hadramitic, which flourished in the region of modern-day Yemen from approximately the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This letter, with a sound value typically reconstructed as /s/ (an emphatic or voiceless sibilant), belongs to the Old South Arabian block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2009 to support the digital preservation and study of this historic writing system that was primarily inscribed on stone and metal monuments. The character's appearance, often featuring a distinctive angular shape with a curved or hooked top, reflects the script's typical right-to-left direction and its shared ancestry with other Semitic scripts like Ge'ez and early Arabic, making it an important key for historians and linguists deciphering inscriptions from pre-Islamic South Arabia.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A6A
Version Added 5.2
Name Old South Arabian Letter Sat
Block Old South Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩪
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE6A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A6A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude6a

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