U+10E8E "𐺎" Yezidi Letter Rha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐺎
U+10E8E "𐺎" Yezidi Letter Rha is a distinct glyph belonging to the Yezidi script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2020 as part of version 13.0 to support the liturgical and cultural writings of the Yezidi religious community. This character represents a specific consonant sound, a voiced pharyngeal or uvular rhotic, used in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish that the Yezidi people traditionally speak and in their sacred texts. Its inclusion in Unicode was a significant step for digital preservation, allowing the Yezidi script to be accurately rendered and transmitted across modern electronic devices and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10E8E |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Yezidi Letter Rha |
| Block | Yezidi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐺎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐺎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDE8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010E8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\ude8e |