U+10A6B "𐩫" Old South Arabian Letter Kaph Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩫

U+10A6B "𐩫" Old South Arabian Letter Kaph is a grapheme from the Old South Arabian script, an ancient abjad used to write the Semitic languages of the Sabaean, Minaean, Qatabanian, and Hadramitic civilizations in the southern Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 9th century BCE to the 7th century CE. This character represents the consonant sound equivalent to the English "k" and is one of 29 letters in the script, which was written from right to left in monumental inscriptions and everyday texts. The letter Kaph is historically derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script and is related to the Hebrew letter Kaf, though its distinctive angular form reflects the unique stone-carving tradition of South Arabian writing. It belongs to the Old South Arabian Unicode block, enabling digital preservation and study of these ancient inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A6B
Version Added 5.2
Name Old South Arabian Letter Kaph
Block Old South Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩫
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE6B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A6B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude6b

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