U+10ADF "𐫟" Manichaean Letter Xoph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐫟
U+10ADF "𐫟" Manichaean Letter Xoph is a glyph representing the final letter of the Manichaean alphabet, which was used to write the Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Old Uyghur languages in the context of the Manichaean religion. This script, derived from the Estrangela variant of Syriac, was employed by Manichaean scribes from the 3rd to the 10th centuries to produce religious texts and hymns across Central Asia and the Middle East. The letter Xoph, as a consonant, corresponds approximately to the sound "x" or "kh" and is one of 32 letters in the Manichaean writing system, which reads from right to left. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10ADF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manichaean Letter Xoph |
| Block | Manichaean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐫟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐫟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDEDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010ADF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udedf |