U+10C23 "𐰣" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon An Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐰣

U+10C23 "𐰣" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon An is a grapheme from the Old Turkic script, specifically the Orkhon alphabet used by early Turkic peoples in Central Asia between the 8th and 10th centuries CE. This letter represents the consonant sound "n" in the Orkhon inscriptions, which are monumental texts carved on stone stelae, most famously the Orkhon inscriptions in present-day Mongolia. The script itself is written from right to left and was used to record the Old Turkic language, belonging to the Runic family of scripts due to its angular, rune like appearance. As part of the Unicode standard's Old Turkic block, this character helps preserve and digitally encode an ancient writing system vital for understanding early Turkic history and linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point U+10C23
Version Added 5.2
Name Old Turkic Letter Orkhon An
Block Old Turkic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐰣
HTML Hex Encoding 𐰣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDC23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010C23
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udc23

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Turkic
Script Extensions Old Turkic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter