U+10C21 "𐰡" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Elt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰡
U+10C21 "𐰡" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Elt is a grapheme from the Old Turkic script, an alphabet used to write the Old Turkic language in the Orkhon Valley of Mongolia during the 8th century CE. Specifically representing the sound "elt," this letter is part of the Orkhon variant of the script, which is historically significant for its use in monumental inscriptions such as those of the Göktürk Empire, which provide some of the earliest written records of Turkic languages. The character belongs to the Old Turkic Unicode block, encoded to support the digital preservation and study of this ancient writing system, reflecting a key component of Central Asian cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C21 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Elt |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc21 |