U+10A80 "𐪀" Old North Arabian Letter Heh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10A80 "𐪀" Old North Arabian Letter Heh is a grapheme from the Old North Arabian script, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE to inscribe dialects like Dadanitic and Taymanitic. This character corresponds to the sound /h/, akin to the English "h" in "hello", and it is a descendant of the Proto-Sinaitic letter heh, which later evolved into the Hebrew letter He and the Arabic letter Ha. The Old North Arabian script is a member of the South Semitic family, written from right to left, and was primarily employed for rock carvings and monumental inscriptions, offering vital insights into the pre-Islamic cultures and languages of northern Arabia. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Old North Arabian block ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally preserve and study this historic script.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A80
Version Added 7.0
Name Old North Arabian Letter Heh
Block Old North Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐪀
HTML Hex Encoding 𐪀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE80
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A80
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude80

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 North Arabian
Script Extensions Old North 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