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Glyph for U+10A71
Source: Noto Sans OldSouArab

U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef

U+10A71 was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block U+10A60 to U+10A7F Old South Arabian in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Old South Arabian script. The character is also known as alef.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+10A71 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩡 ms3nd; modern Arabic: Ψ§Ω„Ω’Ω…ΩΨ³Ω’Ω†ΩŽΨ― musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaean Hasaitic, and GeΚ½ez in DΚΏmt. The earliest instances of the Ancient South Arabian script are painted pottery sherds from Raybun in Hadhramaut in Yemen, which are dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE. There are no letters for vowels, though some can be indicated via matres lectionis.

Its mature form was reached around 800 BCE and its use continued until the 6th century CE, including Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the Arabic alphabet. In Eritrea and Ethiopia, it evolved later into the GeΚ½ez script, which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, as well as other languages (including various Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan languages).

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 68209
UTF-8 F0 90 A9 B1
UTF-16 D8 02 DE 71
UTF-32 00 01 0A 71
URL-Quoted %F0%90%A9%B1
HTML hex reference 𐩱
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 𐩱
alias alef
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 90 32 90 33

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name (na) OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER ALEF
Unicode 1 Name (na1) β€”
Block (blk) Old South Arabian
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Old South Arabian
Bidirectional Category (bc) Right To Left
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) βœ”
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) βœ”
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) βœ”
ID Start (IDS) βœ”
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) β€”
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) β€”
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) βœ”
XID Start (XIDS) βœ”
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) β€”
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+10A71 Old South Arabian Letter Alef
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R