U+10374 "𐍴" Old Permic Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐍴
U+10374 "𐍴" Old Permic Letter Ya is a letter from the Old Permic script, also known as Abur, which was used in the 14th to 17th centuries to write the Komi and related Uralic languages in the Perm region of Russia. This specific character represents a vowel sound, typically transcribed as "jä" or "ja," and it belongs to the "Old Permic" Unicode block, which was added in version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard in 2014. The Old Permic script was created by the missionary Saint Stephen of Perm to translate religious texts, and its letter Ya is derived from the Cyrillic or Greek alphabet, modified with distinctive indigenous features to suit the phonetic needs of the Permic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10374 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Old Permic Letter Ya |
| Block | Old Permic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐍴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐍴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8D 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010374 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf74 |