U+103B8 "𐎸" Old Persian Sign Mu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎸
U+103B8 "𐎸" Old Persian Sign Mu is a cuneiform script sign used in the Old Persian language, which was the language of the Achaemenid Empire, primarily during the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. It represents the syllabic sound "mu," as part of a semi-alphabetic syllabary that was deciphered in the 19th century, notably by scholars like Henry Rawlinson. This character belongs to the Old Persian block of Unicode, which preserves the wedge shaped inscriptions found on monumental reliefs and cuneiform tablets, such as those at Behistun, enabling modern digital representation and study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103B8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Old Persian Sign Mu |
| Block | Old Persian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDFB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000103B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udfb8 |