U+10C42 "𐱂" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Esh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐱂

U+10C42 "𐱂" Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Esh is a glyph representing a distinct variant of the letter Esh, used specifically in the Yenisei subbranch of the Old Turkic script, which was employed by early Turkic peoples in the Yenisei River basin region of Siberia. This character forms part of the Orkhon-Yenisei script family, a writing system historically used for inscriptions on stone monuments and artifacts dating back to the 6th to 10th centuries. The letter Esh in this context corresponds to a specific consonantal or vocalic sound, though its exact phonetic value in Old Turkic is debated among scholars, as it is attested primarily in runelike inscriptions that document the language of early Turkic tribes. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient script, allowing for modern research, typography, and cultural heritage documentation related to the historical Turkic peoples.

General Properties

Code Point U+10C42
Version Added 5.2
Name Old Turkic Letter Yenisei Esh
Block Old Turkic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐱂
HTML Hex Encoding 𐱂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xB1 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDC42
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010C42
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udc42

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Turkic
Script Extensions Old Turkic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter