U+10B0E "𐬎" Avestan Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬎
U+10B0E "𐬎" Avestan Letter U is a character from the Avestan script, which was used to write the Avestan language, the sacred liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. This letter represents the vowel sound /u/ and is part of a script that was developed for recording the hymns and prayers of the Avesta, the central religious text of Zoroastrianism, likely during the Sassanian Empire period. The Avestan alphabet is a derivative of the Pahlavi script, with added diacritics and modifications to accurately represent the phonetic nuances of the ancient language. In modern times, this character is encoded in Unicode for use in digital texts, enabling scholarly work and preservation of this important historical and religious language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B0E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter U |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf0e |