U+10B0F "𐬏" Avestan Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬏
U+10B0F "𐬏" Avestan Letter Uu is a character used to represent the vowel sound /uː/ in the Avestan alphabet, which was developed to write the Avestan language, the sacred language of Zoroastrianism. This script is written from right to left and was primarily employed in religious manuscripts, with a total of 54 characters including vowels and consonants. The letter Uu specifically corresponds to the long U sound, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and accurate representation of ancient Avestan texts, which are crucial for scholarly study of Zoroastrian liturgy and history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B0F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Uu |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf0f |