U+10A9D "𐪝" Old North Arabian Number One Unicode Character

U+10A9D "𐪝" Old North Arabian Number One is a numeral from the ancient script used in the Arabian Peninsula, roughly between the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, to represent the number one in a decimal system. This character belongs to the Old North Arabian block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0 to support the historical writing systems of pre Islamic Arabia. The glyph appears as a simple vertical or slightly angled stroke, reflecting a common cross cultural pattern for representing the unit value in early tally based or alphabetic numeral systems. As a historical numeral, it provides insight into the commercial and record keeping practices of ancient North Arabian cultures, linking the symbol to inscriptions found on stone and metal artifacts across the region.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A9D
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Number One
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪝
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE9D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A9D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude9d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	1
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Old North Arabian
Script Extensions	Old North Arabian
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other