U+10C41 "𐱁" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Esh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐱁
U+10C41 "𐱁" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Esh is a symbol from the Old Turkic script used to represent a voiceless postalveolar fricative sound, similar to the English "sh". This character is part of the Orkhon alphabet, which was employed by Turkic peoples in the 8th century to inscribe texts on stone monuments in Mongolia, most notably the Orkhon inscriptions. The letter's form is derived from earlier runic traditions, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10C41 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Esh |
| Block | Old Turkic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐱁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐱁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xB1 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDC41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010C41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udc41 |