U+10B04 "𐬄" Avestan Letter An Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬄

U+10B04 "𐬄" Avestan Letter An is a glyph from the Avestan alphabet, a script historically used to write the Avestan language, which is the sacred language of Zoroastrianism. This specific character represents the sound of a long "a" followed by a nasal consonant, functioning as a distinct letter in the script. It is part of a Unicode block that was added to encode this ancient script for digital preservation and modern linguistic study, allowing scholars and communities to accurately represent and process religious texts and historical inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B04
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter An
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬄
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B04
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf04

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Avestan
Script Extensions Avestan
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