U+10B13 "𐬓" Avestan Letter Xve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬓
U+10B13 "𐬓" Avestan Letter Xve is a character from the Avestan script, which was historically used to write the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, particularly the Avesta. This specific letter represents the sound "xve," a voiced velar fricative combined with a glide, and it is part of the Avestan alphabet that was standardized during the Sassanian Empire to preserve and transcribe the oral liturgy. The character U+10B13 falls within the Avestan Unicode block, assigned to support the digital encoding of this ancient script for scholarly and liturgical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B13 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Xve |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf13 |