U+103B1 "𐎱" Old Persian Sign Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎱
U+103B1 "𐎱" Old Persian Sign Pa is a cuneiform script symbol used in the Old Persian language, primarily during the Achaemenid Empire around the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. It represents the phonetic sound "pa" and belongs to the Old Persian Cuneiform block, which was deciphered in the 19th century through comparisons with trilingual inscriptions. This character, like others in its script, was typically written from left to right and carved into stone or clay to record royal decrees and historical annals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103B1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign Pa |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfb1 |