U+10A78 Old South Arabian Letter Zayn
U+10A78 was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Old South Arabian script. The character is also known as zain.
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+10A78 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: π©£π©―π©¬π©΅ ms3nd; modern Arabic: Ψ§ΩΩΩ ΩΨ³ΩΩΩΨ― 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, and Hasaitic, and the ancient language of Eritrea, 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, which are marked by 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, and Nilo-Saharan languages).
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 68216 |
UTF-8 | F0 90 A9 B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 02 DE 78 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 0A 78 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%90%A9%B8 |
HTML hex reference | 𐩸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 𩸠|
alias | zain |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER ZAYN | |
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Other Letter | |
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Right To Left | |
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Other | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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