U+10A9B "𐪛" Old North Arabian Letter Theh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐪛
U+10A9B "𐪛" Old North Arabian Letter Theh is a glyph representing a consonant from the ancient Old North Arabian script, a writing system used primarily in the northwestern regions of the Arabian Peninsula between roughly the 6th and 2nd centuries BCE. This script is part of the broader South Semitic family and was employed to inscribe rock art and short dedicatory texts in languages like Dadanitic and Thamudic. The letter Theh corresponds to the sound /θ/ similar to the "th" in the English word "think." Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under the Old North Arabian block ensures digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical alphabet, linking modern computing with ancient Near Eastern linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A9B |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old North Arabian Letter Theh |
| Block | Old North Arabian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐪛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐪛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude9b |
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 |