U+103A0 "𐎠" Old Persian Sign A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎠
U+103A0 "𐎠" Old Persian Sign A is a cuneiform glyph from the Old Persian script, which was used to write the Old Persian language during the Achaemenid Empire, primarily from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. This character represents the vowel sound /a/ and is part of a syllabic writing system that was deciphered in the 19th century, largely through inscriptions on monuments and royal tombs. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital representation and study of this ancient script, preserving a key element of early Iranian linguistic and cultural history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103A0 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign A |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfa0 |