U+10A74 "𐩴" Old South Arabian Letter Gimel Unicode Character

U+10A74 "𐩴" Old South Arabian Letter Gimel is a script character from the Old South Arabian abjad, an ancient writing system used to record various Semitic languages such as Sabaic in the southwestern Arabian Peninsula from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This particular character, named Gimel, represents the sound /g/ and is derived from a pictographic ancestor likely depicting a throw-stick or a similar object, following the same historical root as the Phoenician and Hebrew Gimel. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Old South Arabian block, enabling its digital representation for scholarly, historical, and linguistic research into the epigraphic artifacts of pre-Islamic Arabia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A74
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Gimel
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩴
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A74
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude74

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