U+10C18 "𐰘" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aey Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰘
U+10C18 "𐰘" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aey is a grapheme from the Old Turkic script, specifically representing a sound akin to a front vowel or glide in the Orkhon variant of the alphabet used to write the Old Turkic language. This character is part of the Unicode block spanning U+10C00 to U+10C4F, which encodes the scripts found in monumental inscriptions from the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia, dating to the 8th century CE. As a letter, it would have been carved into stone stelae to record the history and deeds of the Göktürk khans, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C18 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aey |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc18 |