U+10A93 "𐪓" Old North Arabian Letter Dad Unicode Character

U+10A93 "𐪓" Old North Arabian Letter Dad is a symbol from the Old North Arabian script, a writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula during the first millennium BCE to inscribe texts in ancient Semitic languages, often on stone or rock surfaces. This specific character represents the consonant sound "d" or "ḍ," depending on linguistic reconstruction, and is part of a broader abjad alphabet that predates and influenced the development of the Arabic script. The letter Dad, like other characters in this repertoire, reflects a historical writing tradition primarily known through inscriptions found in regions such as modern-day Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Yemen, offering valuable insights into pre-Islamic linguistic and cultural practices.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A93
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Dad
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪓
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE93
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A93
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude93

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