U+10A8F "𐪏" Old North Arabian Letter Es-3 Unicode Character

U+10A8F "𐪏" Old North Arabian Letter Es-3 is a script symbol from the Old North Arabian abjad, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam to inscribe texts such as graffiti and funerary inscriptions on stone. This specific letter represents a consonant sound, typically transcribed as "s," and belongs to the South Arabian script family, which is distinct from the later Arabic alphabet. It is part of the Unicode block dedicated to preserving these historical scripts, enabling their digital representation for academic research, linguistic study, and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A8F
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Es-3
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪏
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude8f

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