U+10B6B "𐭫" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Lamedh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭫
U+10B6B "𐭫" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Lamedh is a glyph from the Inscriptional Pahlavi script, an ancient writing system used primarily in the Sassanid Persian Empire for monumental inscriptions on stone and metal, representing the sound /l/ and corresponding to the Semitic letter Lamedh. This character is part of a Unicode block that preserves the historical script's right-to-left writing direction and connects to the broader family of Pahlavi scripts derived from Aramaic, serving as a key artifact for scholars studying Middle Iranian languages and the epigraphic heritage of pre-Islamic Iran.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B6B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Lamedh |
| Block | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf6b |
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 |