U+10C38 "饜案" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Oq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饜案
U+10C38 "饜案" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Oq is a significant part of the Old Turkic script, which was used to write the Turkic languages in Central Asia and Mongolia from the 6th to the 10th centuries CE, most famously on the Orkhon inscriptions. This specific letter represents a sound transliterated as "oq" or "uk," and it belongs to the set of runiform characters that were instrumental in recording the historical texts of the Göktürk and other early Turkic peoples. The character's inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this ancient writing system, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study and reproduce the inscriptions that provide insight into early Turkic culture, language, and history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C38 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Oq |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐰸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐰸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc38 |