U+10AC0 "𐫀" Manichaean Letter Aleph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐫀
U+10AC0 "𐫀" Manichaean Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Manichaean script, an alphabet used primarily to write the liturgical language of Manichaeism, a major gnostic religion founded by Mani in the 3rd century CE. This character corresponds to the Semitic letter Aleph and represents a glottal stop or a long vowel /aː/ in phonetic transcription. It is part of the Manichaean block in Unicode, which was added to support the scholarly study and digital preservation of this historical writing system found in papyrus manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10AC0 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manichaean Letter Aleph |
| Block | Manichaean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐫀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐫀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDEC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010AC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udec0 |