U+1086F "๐กฏ" Palmyrene Letter Samekh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1086F "๐กฏ" Palmyrene Letter Samekh is a glyph from the Palmyrene script, an ancient Semitic alphabet used to write the Aramaic language in the city of Palmyra and its surrounding regions from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This character represents the consonant sound "s", analogous to the Hebrew samekh or the Syriac semkath, and was inscribed in both monumental and cursive forms on stone monuments, trade documents, and religious artifacts. As part of the Palmyrene block in Unicode, it preserves the historical writing system of a once thriving desert oasis kingdom, helping scholars and digital typographers accurately render and study the language's inscriptions in modern text environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1086F
Name
Palmyrene Letter Samekh
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐡯
HTML Hex Encoding
𐡯
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDC6F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001086F
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\udc6f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Palmyrene