U+10E8A "𐺊" Yezidi Letter Xa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐺊
U+10E8A "𐺊" Yezidi Letter Xa is a symbol from the Yezidi script, an alphabet used to write the Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish language, primarily by the Yezidi religious community. This character represents a specific consonant sound, corresponding roughly to the "kh" sound found in languages like Arabic or Persian, and it is part of a broader Unicode block (U+10E80 to U+10EBF) added in version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard in 2020 to support the liturgical and secular texts of the Yezidi people. The inclusion of this letter in Unicode helps preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Yezidi community, facilitating digital communication and documentation in their native script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10E8A |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Yezidi Letter Xa |
| Block | Yezidi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐺊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐺊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010E8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\ude8a |