Unicode block Old Persian
The Unicode block Old Persian (Old Persian, 103A0 to 103DF) contains the Persian cuneiform script , which was used between the 6th century BC. And the 1st century AD the ancient Persian language was written. The writing is based on the cuneiform script , but is greatly simplified: 13 of the characters denote a consonant independently of the following vowel (as in a consonant script ), and the others denote the remaining 9 consonants together with the following vowel (as in a syllabary ). There are also frequently used logograms, a word separator and their own number signs.
list
All characters have the bidirectional class "left to right".
Unicode number | Characters (400%) |
category | Official name | description |
---|---|---|---|---|
U + 103A0 (66464) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN A | Old Persian character A |
U + 103A1 (66465) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN I | Old Persian character I |
U + 103A2 (66466) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN U | Old Persian character U |
U + 103A3 (66467) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN KA | Old Persian character Ka |
U + 103A4 (66468) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN KU | Old Persian symbol Ku |
U + 103A5 (66469) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN GA | Old Persian character Ga |
U + 103A6 (66470) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN GU | Old Persian character Gu |
U + 103A7 (66471) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN XA | Old Persian character Xa |
U + 103A8 (66472) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN CA | Old Persian character approx |
U + 103A9 (66473) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN YES | Old Persian character yes |
U + 103AA (66474) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN JI | Old Persian character Ji |
U + 103AB (66475) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN TA | Old Persian character Ta |
U + 103AC (66476) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN TU | Old Persian character Tu |
U + 103AD (66477) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN DA | Old Persian symbol Da |
U + 103AE (66478) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN DI | Old Persian character Di |
U + 103AF (66479) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN YOU | Old Persian character you |
U + 103B0 (66480) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN THA | Old Persian character Tha |
U + 103B1 (66481) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN PA | Old Persian symbol Pa |
U + 103B2 (66482) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN BA | Old Persian character Ba |
U + 103B3 (66483) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN FA | Old Persian character Fa |
U + 103B4 (66484) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN NA | Old Persian character Na |
U + 103B5 (66485) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN NU | Old Persian character Nu |
U + 103B6 (66486) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN MA | Old Persian character Ma |
U + 103B7 (66487) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN MI | Old Persian symbol Mi |
U + 103B8 (66488) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN MU | Old Persian character Mu |
U + 103B9 (66489) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN YA | Old Persian character Ya |
U + 103BA (66490) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN VA | Old Persian character Va |
U + 103BB (66491) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN VI | Old Persian symbol Vi |
U + 103BC (66492) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN RA | Old Persian character Ra |
U + 103BD (66493) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN RU | Old Persian character Ru |
U + 103BE (66494) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN LA | Old Persian character La |
U + 103BF (66495) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN SA | Old Persian symbol Sa |
U + 103C0 (66496) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN ZA | Old Persian character Za |
U + 103C1 (66497) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN SHA | Old Persian character Sha |
U + 103C2 (66498) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN SSA | Old Persian character Ssa |
U + 103C3 (66499) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN HA | Old Persian character Ha |
U + 103C8 (66504) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN AURAMAZDAA | Old Persian character Aurumazdaa |
U + 103C9 (66505) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN AURAMAZDAA-2 | Old Persian character Aurumazdaa 2 |
U + 103CA (66506) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN AURAMAZDAAHA | Old Persian character Aurumazdaaha |
U + 103CB (66507) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN XSHAAYATHIYA | Old Persian character Xshaayathiya |
U + 103CC (66508) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN DAHYAAUSH | Old Persian character Dahyaaush |
U + 103CD (66509) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN DAHYAAUSH-2 | Old Persian character Dahyaaush 2 |
U + 103CE (66510) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN BAGA | Old Persian character Baga |
U + 103CF (66511) | ? | other letter, syllable or ideogram | OLD PERSIAN SIGN BUUMISH | Old Persian character Buumish |
U + 103D0 (66512) | ? | other punctuation | OLD PERSIAN WORD DIVIDER | Old Persian word separator |
U + 103D1 (66513) | ? | letter-like digit | OLD PERSIAN NUMBER ONE | Old Persian number one |
U + 103D2 (66514) | ? | letter-like digit | OLD PERSIAN NUMBER TWO | Old Persian number two |
U + 103D3 (66515) | ? | letter-like digit | OLD PERSIAN NUMBER TEN | Old Persian number ten |
U + 103D4 (66516) | ? | letter-like digit | OLD PERSIAN NUMBER TWENTY | Old Persian number twenty |
U + 103D5 (66517) | ? | letter-like digit | OLD PERSIAN NUMBER HUNDRED | Old Persian number one hundred |
Graphic board
Web links
- Character map. (PDF; 80 kB) Unicode Consortium (English)
- Unicode font for Old Persian