U+10F0C "𐼌" Old Sogdian Letter Lamedh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼌

U+10F0C "𐼌" Old Sogdian Letter Lamedh is a script character from the Old Sogdian alphabet, which was used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia during the first millennium CE. This letter represents the sound /l/ and is derived from the Aramaic script's Lamedh, reflecting the widespread influence of Aramaic as a bureaucratic and cultural language along the Silk Road. The character was added to Unicode as part of the Old Sogdian block in version 11.0 in 2018, aiding scholars in the digital preservation of ancient texts from regions such as modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and western China. Its distinct, angled shape is typical of the cursive Sogdian script, which later evolved into the Uighur and Mongolian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F0C
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter Lamedh
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼌
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF0C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F0C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf0c

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