U+10F1C "𐼜" Old Sogdian Letter Final Taw with Vertical Tail Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐼜

U+10F1C "𐼜" Old Sogdian Letter Final Taw with Vertical Tail is a script character used in the ancient Sogdian writing system, which was employed to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken along the Silk Road. This specific character represents a final form of the letter "taw," distinguished by a vertical tail that denotes its position at the end of a word, and it belongs to the Sogdian alphabet block within Unicode. The Old Sogdian script itself is a descendant of the Aramaic alphabet and was later adapted into other Central Asian scripts, and this character is significant for scholars deciphering historical inscriptions and manuscripts from the Sogdian cultural sphere, which flourished from around the 4th to the 10th centuries CE.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F1C
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Letter Final Taw with Vertical Tail
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼜
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F1C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf1c

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