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 |