U+10B33 "𐬳" Avestan Letter Shye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐬳
U+10B33 "𐬳" Avestan Letter Shye is a character from the Avestan script, an ancient alphabet developed to write the Avestan language, which was used for recording Zoroastrian liturgical texts. This particular letter represents a specific consonantal sound and is part of the larger Avestan block in Unicode, which was added to support the accurate digital representation and preservation of historical religious manuscripts. The character’s inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and enthusiasts to digitally encode, search, and share Avestan literature without loss of fidelity to the original script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B33 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Avestan Letter Shye |
| Block | Avestan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐬳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐬳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf33 |