U+10B2B "𐬫" Avestan Letter Ye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬫
U+10B2B "𐬫" Avestan Letter Ye is a script symbol used in the Avestan alphabet, which was developed to write the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, particularly the Avesta. This character represents the consonantal sound /j/, similar to the English letter "y" in "yes," and is part of a right-to-left script that was standardized for digital encoding in Unicode version 5.2, released in 2009. Its inclusion ensures that scholars and practitioners can faithfully preserve and digitally transmit ancient Zoroastrian scriptures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B2B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Ye |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf2b |