U+10B21 "𐬡" Avestan Letter Bhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬡
U+10B21 "𐬡" Avestan Letter Bhe is a character from the Avestan script, which was historically used to write the Avestan language, the sacred language of Zoroastrianism, dating back over a millennium. This specific letter represents a voiced bilabial fricative sound, similar to the English "v" or a breathy "b", and it is distinct from the simpler letter Be (𐬠) due to the addition of a diacritical modifier that indicates aspiration or frication. As part of the Avestan alphabet, Bhe was primarily employed in religious and liturgical manuscripts to transcribe Zoroastrian texts, preserving the precise phonetic nuances of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B21 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Bhe |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf21 |