U+10B0C "𐬌" Avestan Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬌
U+10B0C "𐬌" Avestan Letter I is a character from the Avestan script, an alphabet historically used to write the Avestan language, the sacred language of Zoroastrian scripture. This specific character represents the vowel sound /i/ as in the English word "machine" and is an essential component for accurately transcribing the phonetic and liturgical texts of the Zoroastrian tradition. As part of the Avestan Unicode block, it enables digital preservation and scholarly study of ancient religious manuscripts, bridging the gap between historical epigraphy and modern computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B0C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter I |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf0c |