U+10AE0 "𐫠" Manichaean Letter Qhoph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐫠
U+10AE0 "𐫠" Manichaean Letter Qhoph is a script character used in the Manichaean alphabet, which was developed to write Manichaean religious texts in various Middle Iranian languages like Middle Persian and Sogdian. This letter represents the sound /q/, a voiceless uvular plosive, and it is the nineteenth letter of the Manichaean alphabet, derived from the Aramaic script tradition. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard as part of the Manichaean block ensures digital preservation and scholarly access to this ancient writing system, which flourished from the 3rd to the 10th centuries CE across Central Asia and along the Silk Road.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10AE0 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Manichaean Letter Qhoph |
| Block | Manichaean |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐫠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐫠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAB 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDEE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010AE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udee0 |