U+10B70 "𐭰" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Sadhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐭰
U+10B70 "𐭰" Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Sadhe is a historical character used in the Inscriptional Pahlavi script, which was employed primarily for monumental inscriptions during the Parthian and Sassanid eras of ancient Persia. This letter represents the sound "ṣ" (a emphatic sibilant) and is part of the Inscriptional Pahlavi block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2008 as part of version 5.2 to support a wide range of historical Middle Iranian texts. The character's visual form derives from a cursive or angular style typical of stone-carved inscriptions, and it serves as a key component for scholars studying the epigraphic records of pre-Islamic Iran and Zoroastrian religious writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B70 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Inscriptional Pahlavi Letter Sadhe |
| Block | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐭰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐭰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAD 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf70 |
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 |