U+10A72 "𐩲" Old South Arabian Letter Ayn Unicode Character

U+10A72 "𐩲" Old South Arabian Letter Ayn is a glyph from the Old South Arabian script, used between roughly the 8th century BCE and the 6th century CE in the ancient kingdoms of South Arabia, such as Saba, Qataban, and Hadhramawt. It represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter ‘ayn (ع), and was part of an abjad writing system that was written from right to left. This character, like others in the Old South Arabian block, is primarily of interest to historians and linguists studying ancient Semitic languages and inscriptions, and it was encoded in Unicode 7.0, released in 2014.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A72
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Ayn
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩲
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A72
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude72

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