U+10C14 "𐰔" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ez Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰔
U+10C14 "𐰔" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ez is a grapheme from the Old Turkic script, specifically the Orkhon alphabet, used primarily to write the historical Turkic language of the 8th century Orkhon inscriptions found in modern-day Mongolia. This character represents a voiced alveolar fricative oraffricate sound, typically transliterated as "z" or "ez" in scholarly works, and it appears in monumental texts that record the deeds of Turkic rulers such as Kül Tigin and Bilge Khagan. As part of the Old Turkic block encoded in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, it facilitates the digital preservation and study of these ancient runiform writings, which are significant for understanding early Turkic culture, language, and history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C14 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ez |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc14 |