U+10A9E "𐪞" Old North Arabian Number Ten Unicode Character

U+10A9E "𐪞" Old North Arabian Number Ten is a numeral glyph used in the ancient script of North Arabia, representing the numerical value ten in a writing system known as the Old North Arabian abjad. This character belongs to the Unicode block dedicated to Old North Arabian scripts, which were historically used across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 6th century BCE to the 6th century CE for inscriptions and everyday recording. The numeral "𐪞" is distinct from the letters of the alphabet in this script, highlighting that the Old North Arabian writing system had a separate set of symbols specifically for numeric notation. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this important part of pre-Islamic Arabian cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A9E
Version Added	7.0
Name	Old North Arabian Number Ten
Block	Old North Arabian
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐪞
HTML Hex Encoding	𐪞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude9e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	10
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