U+10ACD "𐫍" Manichaean Letter Heth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐫍

U+10ACD "𐫍" Manichaean Letter Heth is a script symbol from the Manichaean alphabet, which was used primarily for writing the Manichaean religious texts in several Central Asian languages, including Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian. This specific character represents the eighth letter of the Manichaean script, known as Heth, and it corresponds to a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the "h" sound in some Semitic languages. It is classified under the Manichaean block in Unicode, which was added in version 7.0 of the standard to support the historical and liturgical documentation of this ancient religion that flourished from the third to the fifteenth centuries.

General Properties

Code Point U+10ACD
Version Added 7.0
Name Manichaean Letter Heth
Block Manichaean
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐫍
HTML Hex Encoding 𐫍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDECD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010ACD
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udecd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Left Joining
Joining Group Manichaean Heth
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Manichaean
Script Extensions Manichaean
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