U+10F00 "𐼀" Old Sogdian Letter Aleph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐼀
U+10F00 "𐼀" Old Sogdian Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Old Sogdian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily from the 4th to the 8th centuries CE to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia. This character represents the glottal stop or a long vowel sound, analogous to the Semitic aleph from which it is derived, and it played a foundational role in the development of later writing systems, including the Uyghur and Mongolian scripts. As part of the Unicode standard, it preserves the historical and linguistic heritage of the Sogdian civilization, enabling modern scholars and digital platforms to accurately encode and display this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F00 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Old Sogdian Letter Aleph |
| Block | Old Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf00 |