U+10C06 "𐰆" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰆
U+10C06 "𐰆" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon O is a symbol from the Old Turkic script, specifically the Orkhon variant, which was used to write the Turkic languages of the Göktürk Khaganate in Central Asia during the 8th century. This character represents the vowel sound "o" and is part of the alphabet carved into the famous Orkhon inscriptions, stone monuments that chronicle the history and deeds of the Turkic rulers. As a distinctive glyph with a shape resembling a curved hook or open crescent, it appears in the Old Turkic Unicode block, which was added to support the digital preservation and study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C06 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon O |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc06 |