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PHOENICIAN LETTER KAF character


Name:
PHOENICIAN LETTER KAF
Hex Number:
U+1090A
Decimal Number:
67850
HTML Entity (Dec):
𐤊
HTML Entity (Hex):
𐤊
Category:
Lo (Letter, Other)
Bidi Class:
R (Right-to-Left)
Mirrored:
N
Combining Class:
0
Unicode Block:
Phoenician
Plane:
1
Plane Code:
SMP
Plane Description:
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Plane Range:
10000-1FFFF
Character Preview:
𐤊












PHOENICIAN LETTER KAF is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of PHOENICIAN LETTER KAF 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 Phoenician block. The Phoenician block contains characters used in the Phoenician script, an ancient alphabet used by the Phoenician civilization in the Mediterranean region from around the 12th to 2nd centuries BCE. The Phoenician alphabet is significant for its role in the development of later alphabetic scripts, including the Greek and Latin alphabets. The script consists of 22 consonantal letters, with no representation of vowels. This block includes all the letters used in the Phoenician script, which was used for trade, diplomacy, and religious texts throughout the Phoenician world. The Phoenician script is often considered the ancestor of many modern alphabets..





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