U+10B20 "𐬠" Avestan Letter Be Unicode Character

U+10B20 "𐬠" Avestan Letter Be is the second letter of the Avestan alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial stop sound equivalent to the English letter B. It is part of a script historically used to write the Avestan language, which is the sacred language of Zoroastrianism and preserves the texts of the Avesta, including hymns and liturgical works. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Avestan block, which was added to support the digital representation of ancient and religious manuscripts, allowing for accurate text processing and scholarly study of this extinct but culturally significant language.