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 |