U+10A85 "𐪅" Old North Arabian Letter Waw Unicode Character

U+10A85 "𐪅" Old North Arabian Letter Waw is a script symbol used in the ancient Old North Arabian writing system, which was employed across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE to inscribe various dialects including Dadanitic and Thamudic. This particular character represents the consonant sound /w/, analogous to the letter Waw in many Semitic alphabets, and is written in a right-to-left direction. Encoded in the Unicode standard under the Old North Arabian block, it preserves a critical piece of pre-Islamic epigraphic heritage, offering scholars insight into the linguistic and cultural traditions of ancient nomadic and settled communities in the region.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A85
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Waw
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪅
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE85
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A85
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude85

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