U+10B8A "𐮊" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Lamedh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+10B8A "𐮊" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Lamedh is a script symbol used in the Psalter Pahlavi alphabet, a writing system derived from the Aramaic script that was employed primarily for writing Middle Persian religious texts, particularly the Zoroastrian Psalter. This character represents the consonant sound /l/, analogous to the Semitic letter Lamedh, and is part of a cursive right-to-left script that lacks vowels and was historically inscribed on manuscripts and ostraca. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient Middle Iranian script, which was used between the 6th and 7th centuries CE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B8A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Psalter Pahlavi Letter Lamedh |
| Block | Psalter Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐮊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐮊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf8a |