U+10A7A "𐩺" Old South Arabian Letter Yodh Unicode Character

U+10A7A "𐩺" Old South Arabian Letter Yodh is a script character from the Old South Arabian block, representing the consonant sound similar to the English "y". It was used in the ancient writing systems of the Sabaean, Minaean, Qatabanian, and Himyaritic civilizations that flourished in the southern Arabian Peninsula from approximately the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. This letter corresponds to the twenty-second character in the Old South Arabian alphabet, which is an abjad written from right to left, and it is the direct ancestor of the Ge'ez letter "የ" (yä).

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A7A
Version Added	5.2
Name	Old South Arabian Letter Yodh
Block	Old South Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩺
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE7A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A7A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude7a

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