U+10C2A "𐰪" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Eny Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10C2A "𐰪" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Eny is a glyph from the Old Turkic script, specifically the Orkhon variant, used to write the Turkic languages of the 8th century and beyond. This character represents the consonant sound "ñ" or "ny", akin to the Spanish "ñ" or the English "ny" in "canyon", and is part of the Orkhon and Yenisei inscriptions found in modern-day Mongolia and Siberia. It appears in historical texts such as the Kul Tigin and Bilge Khagan monuments, reflecting the phonological system of Old Turkic, which distinguishes nasal consonants like this one. As a block character in the Unicode Standard, it ensures accurate digital preservation and scholarly study of these ancient Central Asian inscriptions, allowing modern researchers and linguists to reproduce the script faithfully.

General Properties

Code Point U+10C2A
Version Added 5.2
Name Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Eny
Block Old Turkic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐰪
HTML Hex Encoding 𐰪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDC2A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010C2A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udc2a

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