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Inscriptional Pahlavi

U+10B60 – U+10B7F   (68448–68479)

The Inscriptional Pahlavi range was introduced with version 5.2.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.

The Inscriptional Pahlavi script was used to write the Sasanians’ own language during the first part of the Sasanian period (224–651 CE), and was used regularly as a monumental script until the fifth century CE. It descended from the Imperial Aramaic script, and was written from right to left.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Ahuramazda (numerals) and ZH Mono.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10B60.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
𐭠68448𐭠10B60INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER ALEPH
𐭡68449𐭡10B61INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER BETH
𐭢68450𐭢10B62INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER GIMEL
𐭣68451𐭣10B63INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER DALETH
𐭤68452𐭤10B64INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER HE
𐭥68453𐭥10B65INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER WAW-AYIN-RESH
𐭦68454𐭦10B66INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER ZAYIN
𐭧68455𐭧10B67INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER HETH
𐭨68456𐭨10B68INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER TETH
𐭩68457𐭩10B69INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER YODH
𐭪68458𐭪10B6AINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER KAPH
𐭫68459𐭫10B6BINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER LAMEDH
𐭬68460𐭬10B6CINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER MEM-QOPH
𐭭68461𐭭10B6DINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER NUN
𐭮68462𐭮10B6EINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER SAMEKH
𐭯68463𐭯10B6FINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER PE
𐭰68464𐭰10B70INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER SADHE
𐭱68465𐭱10B71INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER SHIN
𐭲68466𐭲10B72INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER TAW
𐭸68472𐭸10B78INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER ONE
𐭹68473𐭹10B79INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER TWO
𐭺68474𐭺10B7AINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER THREE
𐭻68475𐭻10B7BINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER FOUR
𐭼68476𐭼10B7CINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER TEN
𐭽68477𐭽10B7DINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER TWENTY
𐭾68478𐭾10B7EINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
𐭿68479𐭿10B7FINSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI NUMBER ONE THOUSAND

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The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.2.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2009 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2009.

Created 7th October 2009   Last updated 2nd December 2010

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