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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Turkic
Script Extensions Old Turkic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter