U+10A88 "𐪈" Old North Arabian Letter Beh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐪈
U+10A88 "𐪈" Old North Arabian Letter Beh is a script symbol used in the Old North Arabian alphabet, which was employed to write various ancient Semitic languages and dialects spoken in the northern regions of the Arabian Peninsula, primarily from around the 9th to the 6th centuries BCE. This consonant letter represents the sound /b/ and is one of several characters in the Unicode block designated for the Old North Arabian script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 7.0 in 2014 to support historical and archaeological texts. The glyph resembles a rounded shape with a distinct vertical stroke, reflecting the unique calligraphic style of this ancient writing system, which is related to other South Semitic scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A88 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Beh |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude88 |
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 |