U+10A78 "𐩸" Old South Arabian Letter Zayn Unicode Character

U+10A78 "𐩸" Old South Arabian Letter Zayn is a symbol from the ancient script used between roughly the 9th century BCE and the 6th century CE to write the Old South Arabian languages, including Sabaic, Qatabanic, and Hadramitic. This letter represents the consonant sound /z/ and holds a position in the Old South Arabian alphabet, which was primarily used for monumental inscriptions carved in stone or metal across the Arabian Peninsula, particularly in modern-day Yemen. The script, written from right to left, was derived from the South Semitic script family and later influenced the development of the Ethiopic script used for Ge'ez.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A78
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Zayn
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩸
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE78
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A78
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude78

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