U+10B1A "𐬚" Avestan Letter The Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬚
U+10B1A "𐬚" Avestan Letter The is a character used to write the Avestan language, the ancient liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, and it represents a voiceless aspirated th sound, similar to the 'th' in the English word "thin". This letter belongs to the Avestan script block of the Unicode standard, which was added in version 5.2 released in 2009 to preserve and digitally encode the sacred texts of the Zoroastrian faith. The Avestan alphabet itself was developed during the Sassanid era to record the oral traditions of the Zoroastrian religion, ensuring its continued study and accessibility in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B1A |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter The |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf1a |