U+10B10 "𐬐" Avestan Letter Ke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬐

U+10B10 "𐬐" Avestan Letter Ke is a glyph used in the Avestan script, representing a consonantal sound roughly equivalent to the English letter 'k'. This script was historically employed to write the Avestan language, a sacred liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, primarily found in manuscripts of the Avesta, the religion's central collection of texts. The letter itself belongs to the Avestan alphabet, which was developed during the Sassanian period to accurately record the phonetic details of the oral Zoroastrian scriptures. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character enables digital preservation and scholarly study of these ancient religious and linguistic materials, ensuring continued access to a key element of Zoroastrian cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B10
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter Ke
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬐
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF10
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B10
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf10

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