U+10F01 "𐼁" Old Sogdian Letter Final Aleph Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼁

U+10F01 "𐼁" Old Sogdian Letter Final Aleph is a script symbol from the Old Sogdian alphabet, an ancient writing system used primarily for the Sogdian language, which was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road from roughly the 4th to the 10th centuries CE. This specific character represents a word-final variant of the letter aleph, which in many Semitic-derived scripts typically denotes a glottal stop but here serves to indicate a final vowel sound or simply marks the end of a word in the cursive Sogdian script. The Old Sogdian script itself evolved from Aramaic and later influenced the development of the Uyghur and Mongolian scripts, making this character a key piece of linguistic history that helps scholars reconstruct ancient trade and cultural exchanges across Eurasia.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F01
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter Final Aleph
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼁
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F01
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf01

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 Sogdian
Script Extensions Old Sogdian
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