U+103A2 "𐎢" Old Persian Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎢
U+103A2 "𐎢" Old Persian Sign U is a cuneiform letter that represents the vowel sound "u" in the Old Persian language, which was used in the Achaemenid Empire from the 6th to the 4th century BCE. This script, deciphered in the 19th century, was primarily employed for royal inscriptions and monumental texts, such as those at Persepolis and Behistun, and the sign U is one of three vowel characters in a largely syllabic writing system that also included 36 phonetic signs. Its encoded form allows modern digital preservation and study of this ancient Middle Eastern language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103A2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign U |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfa2 |