U+10B05 "𐬅" Avestan Letter Aan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬅
U+10B05 "𐬅" Avestan Letter Aan is a character from the Avestan script, an alphabet historically used to write Avestan, the sacred language of Zoroastrian scripture. This specific letter represents a long, open back vowel sound, distinct from its short counterpart, and is part of a writing system that was developed during the Sasanian period to accurately record the oral Zoroastrian liturgy. It appears in the Unicode block for Avestan, which was added to the standard in 2009 to support scholarly and religious study of ancient Iranian texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B05 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Aan |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf05 |