U+10B12 "𐬒" Avestan Letter Xye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬒
U+10B12 "𐬒" Avestan Letter Xye is a character from the Avestan script, which was developed to write the Avestan language, the sacred language of the Zoroastrian faith. This specific letter represents a consonant sound, likely corresponding to a voiceless velar fricative or a similar phonetic value, and is part of a larger set of characters used to record the ancient Zoroastrian scriptures. The Avestan alphabet, derived from the Pahlavi script, is written right to left and was primarily used in religious manuscripts, making this letter a key component in preserving the liturgical and textual traditions of Zoroastrianism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B12 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Xye |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf12 |