U+10C36 "𐰶" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Iq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐰶
U+10C36 "𐰶" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Iq is a specific glyph from the Old Turkic script, also known as the Orkhon runes, which was used in Central Asia and Mongolia primarily from the 8th to 10th centuries for inscriptions on stone monuments. This particular letter represents a consonantal sound, typically transliterated as "iq" or "ïq," and forms part of the alphabet employed to write the Old Turkic language of the Göktürk Empire. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard as part of the Old Turkic block, which ranges from U+10C00 to U+10C4F, enables digital representation and study of this ancient writing system, preserving a key artifact of early Turkic history and literature such as the Orkhon inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C36 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Iq |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc36 |