U+10B80 "𐮀" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Aleph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐮀
U+10B80 "𐮀" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Psalter Pahlavi script, an abjad used to write Middle Persian primarily in Zoroastrian religious manuscripts and inscriptions. This script takes its name from the Psalter, a collection of Psalms, where early examples of its book hand were found. As an aleph, it functions as a consonant representing a glottal stop or serving as a placeholder for vowels in this writing system, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital encoding and preservation of these historically significant texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B80 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Psalter Pahlavi Letter Aleph |
| Block | Psalter Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐮀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐮀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf80 |