U+10F05 "𐼅" Old Sogdian Letter He Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼅

U+10F05 "𐼅" Old Sogdian Letter He is a character from the Old Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used primarily between the 2nd and 9th centuries CE for the Sogdian language, which was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia. This letter represents the sound /h/ and is part of a script derived from the Aramaic alphabet, which later influenced the development of the Uyghur and Mongolian writing systems. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of version 11.0, allowing for the digital representation and preservation of historical Sogdian texts that document the religious, commercial, and cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F05
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter He
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼅
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF05
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F05
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf05

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