U+10B1E "𐬞" Avestan Letter Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬞
U+10B1E "𐬞" Avestan Letter Pe is a specific glyph from the Avestan script, an alphabet historically used to write the Avestan language, the sacred liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. This character represents the sound equivalent to the modern letter "p" and is part of a writing system that was developed during the Sassanian era to preserve the oral Zoroastrian texts, with the script being written from right to left like many other ancient Middle Eastern alphabets. The Avestan Letter Pe, along with the rest of the Avestan block encoded in Unicode, allows for the accurate digital representation and study of these important religious and historical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B1E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Pe |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B1E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf1e |