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

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