U+10A8C "𐪌" Old North Arabian Letter Noon Unicode Character

U+10A8C "𐪌" Old North Arabian Letter Noon is a script symbol from the Old North Arabian alphabet, which was used primarily in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE for inscribing rock art and inscriptions in dialects of Ancient North Arabian. This specific character represents the consonant sound "n" and is directly cognate with the Phoenician letter Nun and the Arabic letter Noon, sharing a similar shape and phonetic value. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under the Old North Arabian block allows for the digital preservation and study of these ancient texts, which are crucial for understanding the linguistic and cultural history of pre-Islamic Arabia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A8C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Noon
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪌
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A8C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude8c

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