U+10F27 "𐼧" Old Sogdian Ligature Ayin-Daleth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+10F27 "𐼧" Old Sogdian Ligature Ayin-Daleth is a typographic ligature found in the Old Sogdian script, which was used primarily in Central Asia to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian tongue that flourished along the Silk Road. This character combines the letters ayin and daleth into a single glyph, reflecting the scribal practice of merging adjacent characters for efficient or decorative writing in manuscripts and inscriptions. It was encoded in Unicode version 14.0, released in 2021, as part of the Old Sogdian block to support digital preservation of historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F27
Version Added 11.0
Name Old Sogdian Ligature Ayin-Daleth
Block Old Sogdian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐼧
HTML Hex Encoding 𐼧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF27
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F27
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf27

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