U+10C08 "𐰈" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰈
U+10C08 "𐰈" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Oe is a specific glyph from the Old Turkic script, representing a sound similar to the front rounded vowel /ø/ (like the "ö" in German). It belongs to the Orkhon Yenisei subgroup of the script, which was historically used by Turkic peoples in Central Asia and Siberia, with this particular form originating from the Yenisei river basin region. The character encodes a linguistic relic of the Göktürk and Uyghur khanates, often found in stone inscriptions and manuscripts dating from the 8th to 10th centuries, serving as a vital tool for scholars studying the phonology and writing systems of early Turkic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C08 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Oe |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc08 |