U+10C30 "𐰰" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Op Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰰
U+10C30 "𐰰" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Op is a specific glyph from the Old Turkic script, also known as the Orkhon runes, which was used primarily between the 8th and 10th centuries by Turkic peoples in Central Asia and Siberia. This character represents the sound "op" and is one of the many letters found in the monumental inscriptions of the Orkhon Valley in present day Mongolia, including the famous inscriptions dedicated to the Göktürk rulers Bilge Khagan and Kül Tigin. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars and digital archivists can accurately encode, store, and display this ancient writing system, preserving an important part of Turkic linguistic and cultural heritage for modern research and education.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C30 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Op |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc30 |