U+10B22 "𐬢" Avestan Letter Nge Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬢

U+10B22 "𐬢" Avestan Letter Nge is a specific glyph used in the Avestan script to represent a nasalized velar sound, likely corresponding to the phonetic value ŋ . It belongs to the Avestan block of the Unicode standard, which was encoded to support the transcription of the ancient Zoroastrian sacred texts known as the Avesta. This letter is part of the set of over 50 characters in the Avestan alphabet, which was written from right to left and adapted from earlier scripts for liturgical and scholarly purposes. The inclusion of the Nge in Unicode ensures that linguists, philologists, and scholars can digitally preserve and study this historic writing system with accuracy.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B22
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter Nge
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬢
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF22
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B22
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf22

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Avestan
Script Extensions Avestan
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter