U+10C40 "𐱀" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐱀
U+10C40 "𐱀" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ash is a specific glyph from the Old Turkic script, representing a consonantal sound used primarily in the Yenisei variant of the Orkhon writing system, which was employed by early Turkic peoples in Central Asia and Siberia. This character is part of the Old Turkic block in Unicode, added to support the transcription of historical inscriptions found on monuments along the Yenisei River. The letter "Ash" typically denotes a voiceless palatal fricative or affricate sound, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode the ancient Turkic script for scholarly study and modern typographic use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C40 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Ash |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐱀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐱀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc40 |