U+10FB7 "๐พท" Chorasmian Letter Curled Waw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐พท

U+10FB7 "๐พท" Chorasmian Letter Curled Waw is a script character used in the ancient Chorasmian alphabet, which was employed to write the now extinct Eastern Iranian language of Chorasmia, an area in Central Asia near the Aral Sea. This specific letter represents a variant of the letter waw, distinguished by its curled or looped shape, and it likely denoted a consonantal or vowel sound similar to /w/ or /u/ in the language's phonology. The character is part of the Unicode Standard's Chorasmian block, added in version 13.0 of the standard in 2020, to support the digital representation of historical texts and inscriptions from the region.

General Properties

Code Point U+10FB7
Version Added 13.0
Name Chorasmian Letter Curled Waw
Block Chorasmian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐾷
HTML Hex Encoding 𐾷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBE 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDFB7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010FB7
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udfb7

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 Chorasmian
Script Extensions Chorasmian
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