U+10A96 "𐪖" Old North Arabian Letter Ghain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐪖
U+10A96 "𐪖" Old North Arabian Letter Ghain is a script symbol representing the voiced uvular fricative sound /ɣ/, similar to the "gh" in some Semitic languages, and belongs to the Old North Arabian script used in pre-Islamic inscriptions across the Arabian Peninsula. This character is part of the Unicode block for Old North Arabian, which was added to the standard in 2014 to support the digital encoding of this ancient writing system. The letter corresponds to the Arabic letter ghayn (غ) in a later alphabet, reflecting a shared linguistic heritage among Semitic scripts. It appears in historical texts that document the dialects and cultures of ancient Arabian tribes before the spread of Islam.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A96 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Ghain |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude96 |
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 |