U+10A9C "𐪜" Old North Arabian Letter Zah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10A9C "𐪜" Old North Arabian Letter Zah is a script character used in the Old North Arabian alphabet, which was employed to write various ancient North Arabian dialects, such as Taymanitic and Dadanitic, primarily in the northwestern regions of the Arabian Peninsula from around the 8th to the 2nd century BCE. This specific letter represents the phoneme /ð/ or a similar voiced dental fricative, akin to the "th" sound in English "that". As part of the Unicode Standard, its inclusion in the Old North Arabian block ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and represent this ancient script, facilitating research in epigraphy and historical linguistics. The glyph is typically carved in a distinctive angular style that reflects its origins in ancient rock inscriptions and monumental texts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐪜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐪜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD802 0xDE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00010A9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud802\ude9c |
Unicode Properties