U+10A6F "𐩯" Old South Arabian Letter Samekh Unicode Character

U+10A6F "𐩯" Old South Arabian Letter Samekh is a character from the Old South Arabian script, an ancient writing system used between roughly the 9th century BCE and the 6th century CE to inscribe languages like Sabaic, Qatabanic, and Hadramitic on stone and metal artifacts. This specific letter, named Samekh, represents a voiceless sibilant sound, likely similar to the English "s", and is part of a consonantal alphabet that was written from right to left. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that modern digital systems can preserve and display the historical inscriptions of the ancient civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula, aiding scholarly research and cultural heritage preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A6F
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Samekh
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩯
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE6F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A6F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude6f

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