U+10B32 "𐬲" Avestan Letter Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬲
U+10B32 "𐬲" Avestan Letter Zhe is a script character used to write the Avestan language, an ancient Eastern Iranian language associated with the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. This letter represents a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the "zh" sound in the English word "pleasure." It belongs to the Avestan alphabet, which was developed during the Sassanid Empire to phonetically transcribe the oral Zoroastrian liturgy, and "𐬲" is typically written from right to left in its script block. In Unicode, it is encoded in the Avestan block, which was added in version 5.2 of the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate digital representation of this historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B32 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Zhe |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf32 |