U+10B63 "𐭣" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Daleth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭣
U+10B63 "𐭣" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Daleth is a historical character used in the Inscriptional Pahlavi script which was employed for writing Middle Persian on rock inscriptions and other official monuments during the Sassanian Empire. This character represents the consonant sound "d" similar to the Hebrew daleth and is part of a larger set of characters encoded to support the study of this ancient and largely undeciphered script. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars to digitally represent and analyze texts from a critical period of Persian history, preserving the written legacy of an empire that influenced art, religion, and governance across the ancient Near East.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B63 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Daleth |
| Block | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf63 |
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 |