U+103CF "𐏏" Old Persian Sign Buumish Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐏏

U+103CF "𐏏" Old Persian Sign Buumish is a cuneiform symbol from the Old Persian script, representing the word for "god" or a specific deity, likely associated with the god Mithra or similar, though its exact phonetic value remains uncertain in scholarly contexts. This character was used in monumental inscriptions from the Achaemenid Empire, particularly in the trilingual Behistan Inscription of Darius the Great, where it appears as a logogram within sacred or royal declarations. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves a key element of ancient Persian writing, allowing digital representation and study of this early form of cuneiform, which was deciphered in the 19th century and belongs to a script system of 36 distinct signs, mostly syllabic but with a few ideograms like this one.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐏏
HTML Hex Encoding 𐏏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8F 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDFCF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000103CF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udfcf

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