U+103A3 "𐎣" Old Persian Sign Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎣
U+103A3 "𐎣" Old Persian Sign Ka is a cuneiform character from the Old Persian script, which was used during the Achaemenid Empire from the 6th to the 4th centuries BCE to write the Old Persian language. This sign represents the consonant sound "ka" and is part of a syllabic writing system that was primarily employed for royal inscriptions, most famously on monuments like the Behistun Inscription. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Old Persian block, allowing modern digital systems to preserve and display this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103A3 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign Ka |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfa3 |