U+10B4B "𐭋" Inscriptional Parthian Letter Lamedh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭋
U+10B4B "𐭋" Inscriptional Parthian Letter Lamedh is a glyph representing the twelfth letter of the Inscriptional Parthian script, an ancient writing system used to record the Middle Iranian language of the Parthian Empire from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. It corresponds to the sound /l/ and is part of a cursive, right-to-left alphabet derived from the Imperial Aramaic script, for which a dedicated Unicode block was established to support scholarly and digital preservation of historical inscriptions. This character appears in epigraphic monuments and official documents, offering modern linguists and historians a direct link to the administrative and cultural language of the Parthian period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B4B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Parthian Letter Lamedh |
| Block | Inscriptional Parthian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf4b |
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 | Inscriptional Parthian |
| Script Extensions | Inscriptional Parthian |
| 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 |