What 𐡁 means
Enter 10841 in a Unicode-aware picker. This selects the Imperial Aramaic letter beth exactly; Latin b is a transliteration and inserts a different character.
In GTK/Linux apps that support Unicode entry, press CtrlShiftU, type 10841, then Enter. Imperial Aramaic runs right to left; if 𐡁 shows as a box, the selected font lacks its glyph.
What does 𐡁 mean?
It marks the consonant b in an Imperial Aramaic word. Imperial Aramaic is written from right to left and generally records consonants without vowel marks. Alone, 𐡁 is a letter, not a complete word.
Why did Imperial Aramaic matter?
It carried official and private records across a multilingual empire. Officials used it for correspondence, contracts, legal briefs, personal letters, and royal proclamations.
Aramaic inscriptions are attested from the ninth to eighth centuries BCE; the script became distinct by the middle of the eighth century BCE. Aramaic developed from Phoenician, and seventh-century cursive writing led toward the documentary Imperial Aramaic hand later standardized across the Persian empire. Papyrus documents from Elephantine, an island in Egypt, preserve community and government records. An Aramaic version of the rock inscription at Bisitun carried Persian king Darius I’s proclamation beyond the monument. Later branches included square Hebrew, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Middle Persian scripts; Arabic writing developed through Nabataean.
A historical letter for a consonantal script; shown alone, it reads as scholarly or typographic.
Sent alone, it can look like an accidental fragment; label it as a script sample.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA letter sample or font check; without a word around it, there is no complete reading.
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1Questions people ask
3Is 𐡁 the same as Hebrew bet?
No. Hebrew bet belongs to square Hebrew script, historically derived from Imperial Aramaic; the forms are related, but each is a character in a different script.
Why doesn’t b type 𐡁?
Because Latin b is a transliteration, not this Unicode character. Enter 10841 in a Unicode-aware picker, or use the GTK/Linux Unicode-entry shortcut.
Can I send 𐡁 as a word?
No. By itself it is a consonant letter, not a complete word; without surrounding Aramaic text, label it as a script sample or display test.
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How to type or find 𐡁
- Also called
- beth · bēth · bēt
- Search it as
- Aramaic beth · Aramaic letter b · Imperial Aramaic alphabet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐡁\10841Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.