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 |