OLD PERSIAN SIGN XSHAAYATHIYA character

OLD PERSIAN SIGN XSHAAYATHIYA
U+103CB
66507
𐏋
𐏋
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Old Persian
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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OLD PERSIAN SIGN XSHAAYATHIYA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of OLD PERSIAN SIGN XSHAAYATHIYA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Old Persian block. The Old Persian block contains characters used in the Old Persian cuneiform script, which was used in the Achaemenid Empire during the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. The script was used primarily for royal inscriptions and is one of the three cuneiform scripts found in the Behistun Inscription, a trilingual inscription that was key to the decipherment of cuneiform. The Old Persian script is an alphabetic cuneiform script, with 36 characters representing consonants and vowels. This block includes all the characters needed to read Old Persian inscriptions, providing a window into the history and culture of the ancient Persian Empire..