U+10B53 "𐭓" Inscriptional Parthian Letter Resh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭓
U+10B53 "𐭓" Inscriptional Parthian Letter Resh is a character from the Inscriptional Parthian script, which was used to write the Parthian language during the Arsacid Empire from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This letter represents the sound equivalent to the modern "R" and is part of a right-to-left script derived from Aramaic, often found on stone monuments, coins, and clay tablets. It appears as a distinct angular glyph, resembling a smaller, open curve or hook, and was used in administrative and royal inscriptions to record the language of the Parthian people, who ruled over a vast region in ancient Iran and Mesopotamia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B53 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Parthian Letter Resh |
| Block | Inscriptional Parthian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf53 |
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 |