U+103A8 "𐎨" Old Persian Sign Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎨
U+103A8 "𐎨" Old Persian Sign Ca is a cuneiform glyph used in the writing system of Old Persian, an ancient language of the Achaemenid Empire. This character represents the syllabic sound "ca" and was inscribed on monumental artifacts such as the Behistun Inscription, using wedge shaped marks pressed into clay or stone. It belongs to the Old Persian script block in Unicode, which was added to support digital representation of this historically significant script, allowing scholars and linguists to study and preserve texts from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103A8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign Ca |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfa8 |