U+10B0E "𐬎" Avestan Letter U Unicode Character

U+10B0E "𐬎" Avestan Letter U is a character from the Avestan script, which was used to write the Avestan language, the sacred liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. This letter represents the vowel sound /u/ and is part of a script that was developed for recording the hymns and prayers of the Avesta, the central religious text of Zoroastrianism, likely during the Sassanian Empire period. The Avestan alphabet is a derivative of the Pahlavi script, with added diacritics and modifications to accurately represent the phonetic nuances of the ancient language. In modern times, this character is encoded in Unicode for use in digital texts, enabling scholarly work and preservation of this important historical and religious language.