U+10A9A "𐪚" Old North Arabian Letter Yeh Unicode Character

U+10A9A "𐪚" Old North Arabian Letter Yeh is a glyph representing a consonant sound from the ancient Old North Arabian script, which was used across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE to inscribe a group of related dialects. This specific letter, "Yeh," corresponds to the "y" sound and is part of a family of abjad scripts that preceded and influenced the development of the Arabic alphabet. Found primarily on rock carvings and monumental inscriptions, it provides scholars with critical evidence of early Semitic writing practices and linguistic history. The character was encoded in Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual Plane to support the digital preservation and study of this historical script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A9A
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Letter Yeh
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪚
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE9A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A9A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude9a

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