The Unicode block Old Persian (U+10900–U+1093F) represents the cuneiform script used to write Old Persian, a language spoken in the Achaemenid Empire from the 6th to 4th centuries BC. It is one of the three languages inscribed on the Behistun Inscription, a monumental rock relief depicting the conquests of Darius I. Old Persian was a West Iranian language related to Avestan and Sogdian. The cuneiform script used to write it was adapted from the Babylonian cuneiform script, but with a simplified character set and a different writing direction (left to right). The Unicode block contains characters for the individual cuneiform signs used in Old Persian, as well as ligatures that combine multiple signs into single glyphs.

View a range of fonts that support the Old Persian block.

Below you will find all the characters that are in the Old Persian unicode block. Currently there are 50 characters in this block.