U+10C02 "𐰂" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰂
U+10C02 "𐰂" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ae is a glyph from the Old Turkic script, specifically representing a variant form of the letter used to denote a vowel sound in the Orkhon and Yenisei writing systems historically employed by Turkic peoples in Central Asia and Siberia. It is part of the Old Turkic Unicode block, which was added to support the reconstruction and digital preservation of ancient inscriptions, such as those found on stone monuments from the Göktürk and Uyghur khanates. This particular letter, characterized by its distinct angular shape, is associated with the Yenisei branch of the script and corresponds to a back vowel, often transliterated as "ae" or a similar phoneme in modern scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C02 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ae |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc02 |