U+10B03 "𐬃" Avestan Letter Aao Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬃
U+10B03 "𐬃" Avestan Letter Aao is a character from the Avestan script, which was used historically to write Avestan, the sacred language of Zoroastrian liturgy. This specific letter represents a long vowel sound, akin to a prolonged "ā" or "ao" in phonetic transcription, and belongs to the Avestan alphabetical order where it was employed to accurately record the phonetic nuances of the ancient religious texts. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Avestan block, which was added in version 5.2 to support digital representation of this extinct but historically significant script, enabling scholars and enthusiasts to preserve and study the Zoroastrian scriptures in electronic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B03 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Aao |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf03 |