U+10AE4 "𐫤" Manichaean Letter Taw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐫤

U+10AE4 "𐫤" Manichaean Letter Taw is the twenty-second and final letter of the Manichaean script, representing the sound /t/ and used in the religious and literary texts of Manichaeism, a major Gnostic faith founded by the prophet Mani in the 3rd century CE. This script, derived from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, was employed to write Middle Iranian languages such as Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Bactrian, and the letter Taw is notable as one of the many characters encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Manichaean block, which helps preserve and digitally represent this historically significant writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+10AE4
Version Added 7.0
Name Manichaean Letter Taw
Block Manichaean
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐫤
HTML Hex Encoding 𐫤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDEE4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010AE4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udee4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Manichaean Taw
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Manichaean
Script Extensions Manichaean
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