U+10B35 "𐬵" Avestan Letter He Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐬵

U+10B35 "𐬵" Avestan Letter He is a character from the Avestan script, a writing system developed to record the sacred Zoroastrian liturgy known as the Avesta. This specific letter represents the sound /h/ and is the final character in the Avestan alphabet, which was historically written from right to left. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard under the category of an other letter, serving as a phonetic symbol for the precious liturgical language that dates back to the 1st millennium BCE. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and academic study of Zoroastrian religious texts and the linguistic heritage of ancient Iranian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+10B35
Version Added 5.2
Name Avestan Letter He
Block Avestan
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐬵
HTML Hex Encoding 𐬵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xAC 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDF35
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010B35
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\udf35

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