U+10A8A "𐪊" Old North Arabian Letter Es-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐪊
U+10A8A "𐪊" Old North Arabian Letter Es-1 is a specific grapheme from the Old North Arabian script, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula between roughly the 8th and 4th centuries BCE for inscriptions in various dialects. This letter represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative sound /ɬ/, which is similar to the "hl" sound found in some other Semitic languages, and it belongs to a family of scripts known as Dadanitic, Taymanitic, or Thamudic depending on the region. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as part of the Old North Arabian block (U+10A80 to U+10A9F) allows for the digital representation and preservation of these ancient texts, facilitating research in epigraphy and historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A8A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Es-1 |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude8a |
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 |