U+10A86 "𐪆" Old North Arabian Letter Es-2 Unicode Character

U+10A86 "𐪆" Old North Arabian Letter Es-2 is a grapheme from the Old North Arabian script, which was used in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE to write a group of ancient Semitic languages and dialects. This specific letter represents a sound equivalent to the modern English "s" or "ess," and it belongs to a family of scripts related to the South Arabian alphabet. The character is part of the Unicode Standard's Old North Arabian block, which was added to support the digital encoding and scholarly study of these pre-Islamic inscriptions, many of which have been found on rocks and artifacts across regions like modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A86
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Es-2
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪆
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE86
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A86
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude86

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