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Glyph for U+2138
Source: Noto Sans

U+2138 Dalet Symbol

U+2138 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2100 to U+214F Letterlike Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as fourth transfinite cardinal.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyph Glyph for U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2138 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Syriac dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).

The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door:

Representations

System Representation
8504
UTF-8 E2 84 B8
UTF-16 21 38
UTF-32 00 00 21 38
URL-Quoted %E2%84%B8
HTML hex reference ℸ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ℸ
HTML named entity ℸ
alias fourth transfinite cardinal
LATEX \daleth

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name DALET SYMBOL
Unicode 1 Name FOURTH TRANSFINITE CARDINAL
Block Letterlike Symbols
General Category Other Letter
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Case Folding Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+05D3 Hebrew Letter Dalet
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2138 Dalet Symbol
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U