U+10B24 "𐬤" Avestan Letter Ngve Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬤

U+10B24 "𐬤" Avestan Letter Ngve is a symbol from the Avestan script, which was historically employed for writing the Avestan language used in Zoroastrian scripture. This specific letter represents a nasalized velar sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing," and it forms part of the Avestan alphabet that was primarily used for religious texts during the Sassanid Empire. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Avestan block, which was added to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient liturgical language.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B24
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter Ngve
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬤
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B24
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf24

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