U+10A8E "๐ช" Old North Arabian Letter Sad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐ช
U+10A8E "๐ช" Old North Arabian Letter Sad is a glyph representing a specific consonant from the script used historically for the Old North Arabian languages, which were spoken across the Arabian Peninsula prior to the rise of Islam. This letter is used to convey the "s" sound, akin to the emphatic Arabic แนขฤd, and it belongs to the Ancient North Arabian block within the Unicode standard, which was added to accommodate the needs of historical and epigraphic research. Its inclusion allows scholars to digitally preserve and analyze inscriptions found on stone and metal artifacts, offering a window into the ancient linguistic and cultural landscapes of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A8E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Sad |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude8e |
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 |