U+10F09 "𐼉" Old Sogdian Letter Heth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐼉
U+10F09 "𐼉" Old Sogdian Letter Heth is a script symbol derived from the ancient Sogdian alphabet, which was used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road from around the 4th to the 10th centuries CE. This particular letter represents the consonant sound /ħ/ or /h/, akin to the Semitic letter heth from which it historically descends, and it appears in manuscripts and inscriptions that document Sogdian trade, religion, and culture, including Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian texts. The character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Old Sogdian block to preserve this extinct yet historically significant writing system for digital text and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F09 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Old Sogdian Letter Heth |
| Block | Old Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf09 |