U+10F08 "𐼈" Old Sogdian Letter Zayin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼈

U+10F08 "𐼈" Old Sogdian Letter Zayin is a glyph used in the Old Sogdian script, which was historically employed to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Sogdiana (modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) from roughly the 4th to the 10th centuries CE. This character represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/, similar to the English "z", and it corresponds to the letter Zayin in the Aramaic alphabet, from which the Old Sogdian script was ultimately derived. It appears as part of the early abjad-like writing system that influenced later scripts such as the Manichaean and Sogdian-derived Uyghur alphabets, and it is encoded in the Unicode block for Old Sogdian, which supports the digital preservation of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F08
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter Zayin
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼈
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF08
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F08
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf08

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