OLD NORTH ARABIAN LETTER WAW character

OLD NORTH ARABIAN LETTER WAW
U+10A85
68229
𐪅
𐪅
Lo (Letter, Other)
R (Right-to-Left)
N
0
Old North Arabian
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
𐪅












OLD NORTH ARABIAN LETTER WAW is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of OLD NORTH ARABIAN LETTER WAW 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 Old North Arabian block. The Old North Arabian block contains characters used in the Old North Arabian script, which was used in the Arabian Peninsula from the 6th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The script is an alphabetic system that was used for inscriptions in various dialects of Old North Arabian, including Safaitic, Thamudic, and Hasaitic. These inscriptions are found on rock surfaces, often as graffiti, and provide valuable information about the languages, culture, and history of pre-Islamic Arabia. The block includes all the characters needed to write in Old North Arabian, reflecting its significance in the study of ancient Arabian history and epigraphy..