U+10F04 "𐼄" Old Sogdian Letter Gimel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10F04 "𐼄" Old Sogdian Letter Gimel is a character from the Old Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used primarily in Central Asia from the 4th to the 10th centuries for the Sogdian language, which belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. This specific letter represents the sound /g/ and is part of the Sogdian alphabet, which was derived from Aramaic and later influenced the development of other scripts, including the Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets. The Old Sogdian script was written from right to left and was used for religious, commercial, and administrative texts, with the Gimel character playing a key role in representing voiced velar stops. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally preserve and study this historically significant writing system.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐼄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐼄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD803 0xDF04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00010F04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud803\udf04 |
Unicode Properties