U+10ACB "𐫋" Manichaean Letter Jayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐫋
U+10ACB "𐫋" Manichaean Letter Jayin is a script symbol from the Manichaean alphabet, which was historically used to write the Manichaean religion's sacred texts in various Central Asian languages, including Middle Persian and Sogdian. This specific character represents the consonant sound that equates to the letter "J" in the Latin alphabet, and its name "Jayin" reflects its phonetic value and position in the Manichaean abjad order. The letter is part of the Manichaean block in Unicode, encoded to preserve and enable digital representation of the ancient script, which flourished from the 3rd to the 10th centuries CE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10ACB |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manichaean Letter Jayin |
| Block | Manichaean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐫋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐫋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDECB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010ACB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udecb |