U+10C22 "𐰢" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Em Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰢
U+10C22 "𐰢" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Em is a specific glyph within the Old Turkic script block, representing the consonant sound "m" as used in the Orkhon alphabet, which was employed to write the earliest known Turkic inscriptions from the 8th century in Central Asia. This letter is part of the Orkhon script, a runiform writing system named after the Orkhon River valley in Mongolia where monumental stone stelae, such as the Kül Tigin and Bilge Khagan inscriptions, were discovered. The character carries historical significance as a key component of the written record of the Göktürk Khaganate, reflecting the phonetic and linguistic structure of old Turkic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C22 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Em |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc22 |