U+10A87 "𐪇" Old North Arabian Letter Reh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐪇
U+10A87 "𐪇" Old North Arabian Letter Reh is a grapheme used to represent the consonant "r" in the Old North Arabian script, an ancient writing system employed in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE. This letter belongs to a family of scripts related to the South Semitic alphabet and was primarily used for inscribing rock art and monumental texts by nomadic peoples, with its distinctive shape featuring a rounded top and a downward stroke. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this historic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A87 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Reh |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude87 |
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 |