U+10B11 "𐬑" Avestan Letter Xe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬑

U+10B11 "𐬑" Avestan Letter Xe is a symbol used in the Avestan alphabet, an ancient script developed to write the Avestan language, which preserved the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. This character represents a voiceless velar fricative sound, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch" or the "j" in Spanish. Its visual design is part of a larger set of Avestan letters that were derived from the Pahlavi script, and it appears primarily in scholarly works, religious manuscripts, and digital texts that require accurate representation of the Avestan language.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B11
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter Xe
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬑
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF11
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B11
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf11

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