U+10A98 "𐪘" Old North Arabian Letter Zain Unicode Character

U+10A98 "𐪘" Old North Arabian Letter Zain is a script symbol from the Old North Arabian abjad, an ancient writing system used in the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to 2nd centuries BCE to inscribe languages like Dadanitic and Taymanitic. This particular character represents the consonantal sound /z/, akin to the English letter Z, and is part of a broader corpus of inscriptions found on stone and rock surfaces, primarily in the region of modern-day Saudi Arabia. As a member of the Old North Arabian block, this letter contributes to the preservation and digital representation of a script that is crucial for understanding early Semitic epigraphy and the cultural history of pre-Islamic Arabia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A98
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Zain
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪘
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE98
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A98
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude98

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