U+10C03 "𐰃" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰃
U+10C03 "𐰃" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon I is a member of the Old Turkic script block, specifically representing the vowel sound "i" in the Orkhon alphabet used by ancient Turkic peoples. This glyph is part of the larger Orkhon runic writing system, which was inscribed on stone monuments and artifacts from the 8th to 10th centuries in Central Asia and Mongolia. The letter's distinctive shape, resembling a vertical line with a leftward hook, reflects the angular, rune like forms common to early Turkic epigraphy, which European travelers first documented in the 18th century. As a digital character, it serves to preserve and enable modern representation of this historic script in computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C03 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon I |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc03 |