U+10B85 "𐮅" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Waw-Ayin-Resh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐮅
U+10B85 "𐮅" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Waw-Ayin-Resh is a single glyph used in the Psalter or Book of Psalms variant of the Pahlavi script, which was employed to write Middle Persian primarily in religious Zoroastrian texts. This character represents a ligature combining the letters Waw, Ayin, and Resh, reflecting the script's tendency to merge common letter sequences into compact symbols for efficiency. It belongs to the Psalter Pahlavi block, a section of Unicode dedicated to this specific script that was standardized to preserve manuscript traditions from early medieval Iran. As a logographic element, it encodes a phonetic grouping rather than a single sound, aiding in the accurate transcription of sacred liturgical language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B85 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Psalter Pahlavi Letter Waw-Ayin-Resh |
| Block | Psalter Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐮅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐮅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf85 |