U+10B20 "𐬠" Avestan Letter Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬠
U+10B20 "𐬠" Avestan Letter Be is the second letter of the Avestan alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial stop sound equivalent to the English letter B. It is part of a script historically used to write the Avestan language, which is the sacred language of Zoroastrianism and preserves the texts of the Avesta, including hymns and liturgical works. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Avestan block, which was added to support the digital representation of ancient and religious manuscripts, allowing for accurate text processing and scholarly study of this extinct but culturally significant language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B20 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Be |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf20 |