U+10B99 "𐮙" Psalter Pahlavi Section Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐮙
U+10B99 "𐮙" Psalter Pahlavi Section Mark is a punctuation symbol used in the Psalter Pahlavi script, which was employed primarily for writing Middle Persian texts, notably the Psalms. This character serves to indicate the beginning of a new section or division within a manuscript, functioning as a visual marker for readers to navigate religious or literary content. It belongs to the Psalter Pahlavi block, added to Unicode in 2010, and reflects the scribal traditions of Zoroastrian and early Christian communities in pre-Islamic Iran.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10B99 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Psalter Pahlavi Section Mark |
| Block | Psalter Pahlavi |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐮙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐮙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xAE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDF99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010B99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udf99 |
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 | Psalter Pahlavi |
| Script Extensions | Psalter Pahlavi |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |