U+10EA8 "𐺨" Yezidi Letter Yot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐺨
U+10EA8 "𐺨" Yezidi Letter Yot is part of the Yezidi script, a writing system used primarily for the Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish language by the Yezidi religious community. This character represents the consonant sound /j/ (like the English "y" in "yes") and is one of over 50 letters in the Yezidi alphabet, which was added to Unicode as part of Version 13.0 in 2020 to support the preservation and digital representation of Yezidi cultural and religious texts. Its inclusion helps enable accurate transcription of sacred hymns, prayers, and historical documents that are central to the Yezidi faith.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10EA8 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Yezidi Letter Yot |
| Block | Yezidi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐺨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐺨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010EA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udea8 |