U+10B61 "𐭡" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭡
U+10B61 "𐭡" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Beth is a glyph from the Inscriptional Pahlavi script, an ancient writing system used primarily in the Sassanian Empire and earlier periods to represent the Middle Persian language on monuments, seals, and coins. This specific letter, named after the Semitic letter Beth, corresponds to the sound /b/ and is part of a right-to-left abjad that evolved from the Aramaic script. As a historical character, it now appears in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and scholarly study of pre Islamic Iranian inscriptions, enabling accurate representation of texts that were once carved in stone or metal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B61 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Beth |
| Block | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf61 |
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 Pahlavi |
| Script Extensions | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
| 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 |