U+10EA4 "๐บค" Yezidi Letter Waw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐บค

U+10EA4 "๐บค" Yezidi Letter Waw is a specific glyph used in the Yezidi script, which was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of version 14.0. This letter represents the sound /w/ or /u/ in the Yezidi language, an endangered Indo-European language spoken by the Yezidi people primarily in northern Iraq, Armenia, and Georgia. The Yezidi alphabet section of Unicode was created to preserve and digitally support this unique religious and cultural community's written traditions, allowing for accurate transcription of sacred texts and everyday communication. The Waw character, resembling the shape of its Semitic counterparts but with distinct Yezidi stylistic features, serves as a vital component in representing the vowel and consonant sounds of this historically oral language as it gains modern digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+10EA4
Version Added 13.0
Name Yezidi Letter Waw
Block Yezidi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐺤
HTML Hex Encoding 𐺤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDEA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010EA4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udea4

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 Yezidi
Script Extensions Yezidi
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter