U+0841 "ࡁ" Mandaic Letter Ab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡁ
U+0841 "ࡁ" Mandaic Letter Ab is the second letter of the Mandaic alphabet, representing the consonant /b/ and carrying the numerical value of 2. It is used in the Mandaic script to write the classical Mandaic language, which is the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community, and it also appears in the modern Neo-Mandaic dialect. In Mandaean cosmology, this letter is associated with the element and concept of "the Father" due to its name "Ab" meaning "father" in Aramaic, reflecting the deeply symbolic and spiritual significance placed on individual letters within Mandaean tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0841 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Letter Ab |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0841 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000841 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0841 |