U+10F04 "𐼄" Old Sogdian Letter Gimel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼄

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

Code Point U+10F04
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter Gimel
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

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

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