U+10A97 "𐪗" Old North Arabian Letter Tah Unicode Character

U+10A97 "𐪗" Old North Arabian Letter Tah is a glyph used in the ancient script known as Old North Arabian, which was employed to write various Semitic languages in the northern Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant from roughly the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE. This letter represents the consonant sound equivalent to the Arabic "ṭāʾ" (a voiceless emphatic dental plosive), and it is part of a script that is written from right to left and is closely related to the South Arabian alphabet. The character was encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014 as part of the Old North Arabian block, helping preserve and digitally enable scholarly research into this historic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A97
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Tah
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪗
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A97
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude97

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