U+103AE "𐎮" Old Persian Sign Di Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐎮

U+103AE "𐎮" Old Persian Sign Di is a specific character from the Old Persian cuneiform script, which was used to write the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire. This particular sign represents the syllabic sound "di" and is part of a larger set of cuneiform characters that were deciphered in the 19th century, primarily through the analysis of inscriptions like the Behistun Inscription. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Old Persian block, allowing for its digital representation and use in modern text processing for historical, linguistic, and academic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+103AE
Version Added 4.1
Name Old Persian Sign Di
Block Old Persian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐎮
HTML Hex Encoding 𐎮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDFAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000103AE
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udfae

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Persian
Script Extensions Old Persian
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter