U+10A9A "𐪚" Old North Arabian Letter Yeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+10A9A "𐪚" Old North Arabian Letter Yeh is a glyph representing a consonant sound from the ancient Old North Arabian script, which was used across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE to inscribe a group of related dialects. This specific letter, "Yeh," corresponds to the "y" sound and is part of a family of abjad scripts that preceded and influenced the development of the Arabic alphabet. Found primarily on rock carvings and monumental inscriptions, it provides scholars with critical evidence of early Semitic writing practices and linguistic history. The character was encoded in Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual Plane to support the digital preservation and study of this historical script.
General Properties
Code Point
U+10A9A
Name
Old North Arabian Letter Yeh
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐪚
HTML Hex Encoding
𐪚
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xAA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDE9A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010A9A
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\ude9a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Old North Arabian