U+10E80 "𐺀" Yezidi Letter Elif Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐺀
U+10E80 "𐺀" Yezidi Letter Elif is the first letter of the Yezidi script, a writing system used to represent the Kurdish language of the Yezidi religious community. This letter corresponds to the long vowel sound /aː/ or /ɑː/ in Yezidi orthography, similar to the Arabic alif or Elif, and it marks the beginning of the alphabet. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Yezidi block (U+10E80 to U+10EBF) was a significant step in preserving and digitally enabling the Yezidi language, which has historically been an oral tradition with limited written materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10E80 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Yezidi Letter Elif |
| Block | Yezidi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐺀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐺀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDE80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010E80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\ude80 |