U+103A1 "𐎡" Old Persian Sign I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎡
U+103A1 "𐎡" Old Persian Sign I is a cuneiform symbol used in the Old Persian script, a writing system employed by the Achaemenid Empire from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE to inscribe monumental texts on stone, such as the famous Behistun Inscription. This character represents the vowel sound "i" and is part of a primarily syllabic script that, under the reign of Darius the Great, was deliberately created to record the Persian language in a unique, wedge-shaped form. As a member of the Old Persian block in Unicode, it allows modern scholars and digital historians to accurately preserve, study, and share these ancient inscriptions, linking contemporary technology directly to one of the earliest known Iranian writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103A1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign I |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfa1 |