OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER YODH character

OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER YODH
U+10A7A
68218
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Lo (Letter, Other)
R (Right-to-Left)
N
0
Old South Arabian
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER YODH is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of OLD SOUTH ARABIAN 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 Old South Arabian block. The Old South Arabian block contains characters used in the Old South Arabian script, which was used for writing various South Arabian languages from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE. The script is an abjad, with letters representing consonants, and it was used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and official documents in what is now Yemen and Oman. The Old South Arabian script provides valuable insights into the history, culture, and religion of the ancient South Arabian civilizations. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Old South Arabian, reflecting its significance in the study of ancient Semitic languages..