U+10C1A "𐰚" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰚
U+10C1A "𐰚" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aek is a glyph from the Old Turkic script, historically used to write the Turkic languages of the Orkhon and Yenisei river regions during the 8th to 10th centuries. This particular letter represents a guttural or back vowel sound, often transliterated as "a" or "e" depending on the phonetic context, and it appears in the famous Orkhon inscriptions that commemorate the deeds of the Göktürk rulers. As part of the Unicode Old Turkic block, it preserves an essential fragment of Central Asian linguistic heritage, enabling modern digital documentation and study of ancient Turkic epigraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C1A |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Aek |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc1a |