U+10B8B "𐮋" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Mem-Qoph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐮋
U+10B8B "𐮋" Psalter Pahlavi Letter Mem-Qoph is a single glyph representing a ligature of two letters from the Psalter Pahlavi script, which was used primarily for writing Middle Persian in Zoroastrian religious texts, notably the Psalter. This character combines the letters Mem and Qoph, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and study of this historical script, which is characterized by its cursive and often connected letterforms. As part of the Psalter Pahlavi block, it aids scholars and linguists in accurately encoding and analyzing manuscripts from the early medieval period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B8B |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Psalter Pahlavi Letter Mem-Qoph |
| Block | Psalter Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐮋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐮋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAE 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf8b |