U+10F02 "𐼂" Old Sogdian Letter Beth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐼂
U+10F02 "𐼂" Old Sogdian Letter Beth is an ancient script character used to represent the second letter of the Old Sogdian alphabet, a writing system descended from Aramaic that was employed in Central Asia for the Sogdian language from roughly the 4th to the 10th centuries CE. This character, called Beth, corresponds to the sound /b/ and is a direct predecessor to letters in later scripts such as the Syriac and Manichaean alphabets. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally encode this historical writing system, enabling scholars and enthusiasts to correctly represent and study Sogdian texts, which are crucial for understanding the cultural and commercial exchanges along the Silk Road.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F02 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Old Sogdian Letter Beth |
| Block | Old Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf02 |