U+10C20 "𐰠" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰠
U+10C20 "𐰠" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ael is a specific glyph used in the Old Turkic script, also known as the Orkhon or Göktürk alphabet, which was employed to write the Old Turkic language during the 8th century and later centuries in Central Asia. This character represents a vowel sound, typically transcribed as "ä" or "æ," and is found in inscriptions such as the famous Orkhon monuments in Mongolia. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Old Turkic block ensures that modern digital systems can accurately encode and display this historically significant writing system, preserving access to the linguistic heritage of early Turkic peoples.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C20 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ael |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc20 |