U+10B17 "𐬗" Avestan Letter Ce Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬗
U+10B17 "𐬗" Avestan Letter Ce is a character from the Avestan script, which was used to write the Avestan language, the sacred language of the Zoroastrian religion. This specific letter represents the consonant sound /tʃe/ and is part of a historically important alphabet that originated in the 4th to 6th century CE for recording liturgical texts. While the Avestan script is no longer used for everyday communication, it remains significant for the study of ancient Indo-Iranian languages and the religious traditions of Zoroastrianism. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures its preservation and accessibility for scholars, linguists, and digital text encoding across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B17 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Ce |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf17 |