U+10A73 "𐩳" Old South Arabian Letter Dhadhe Unicode Character

U+10A73 "𐩳" Old South Arabian Letter Dhadhe is a glyph from the Old South Arabian script, an abjad used in the ancient kingdoms of South Arabia, such as Saba and Himyar, between roughly the 9th century BCE and the 6th century CE. This particular letter represents the emphatic consonant sound /dˤ/ (similar to the Arabic letter ض "ḍād") and was part of an alphabet that originally consisted of 29 characters, typically written from right to left. The character is now included in the Unicode Standard under the Old South Arabian block, allowing for its digital representation and preservation for historical and linguistic study of the ancient Semitic languages of the region.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A73
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Dhadhe
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩳
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A73
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude73

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