U+10B2A "𐬪" Avestan Letter Yye Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬪

U+10B2A "𐬪" Avestan Letter Yye is a character from the Avestan script used to represent a specific phoneme in the Avestan language, an ancient Iranian language primarily known as the language of the Zoroastrian scriptures. This letter corresponds to the sound /j/ similar to the English letter 'y' in "yes", and it belongs to a segment of the Unicode Standard designed to support the accurate digital representation of historical texts and manuscripts. The inclusion of the Avestan block in Unicode helps scholars, linguists, and cultural preservers to encode, study, and share inscriptions and liturgical works from Zoroastrianism without the loss of phonetic or orthographic nuance.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B2A
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter Yye
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬪
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF2A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B2A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf2a

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