U+10A8B "𐪋" Old North Arabian Letter Kaf Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐪋

U+10A8B "𐪋" Old North Arabian Letter Kaf is a character from the Old North Arabian script, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant from roughly the late 2nd millennium BCE to the mid-1st millennium BCE. This letter specifically represents the sound /k/ and is part of a script that is closely related to South Arabian alphabets, typically written from right to left. The Old North Arabian script was used for inscriptions on stone, rock faces, and pottery, primarily by nomadic and settled peoples of the region, and it is distinct from the later Arabic script. The Kaf character contributes to our understanding of the linguistic and cultural history of pre-Islamic Arabia, preserving evidence of the region's early writing traditions before the spread of the Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A8B
Version Added 7.0
Name Old North Arabian Letter Kaf
Block Old North Arabian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐪋
HTML Hex Encoding 𐪋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A8B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude8b

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