IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER YODH character

IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER YODH
U+10849
67657
𐡉
𐡉
Lo (Letter, Other)
R (Right-to-Left)
N
0
Imperial Aramaic
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER YODH is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER YODH is Right-to-Left (Strong). It belongs to the strong right-to-left characters..

The Right-to-Left (R) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from right to left. This class includes most alphabetic characters from scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Thaana. The R characters determine the directionality of text segments and are crucial in the processing of bidirectional text.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Imperial Aramaic block. The Imperial Aramaic block contains characters used in the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used across the Near East as a lingua franca during the Achaemenid Empire (6th to 4th centuries BCE). The script is alphabetic and is closely related to Phoenician. Imperial Aramaic was used for official inscriptions, administrative documents, and correspondence throughout the empire. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Imperial Aramaic, reflecting the script’s historical importance as one of the earliest widely adopted writing systems in the ancient world..