U+10F36 "饜级" Sogdian Letter Heth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饜级
U+10F36 "饜级" Sogdian Letter Heth is a character from the Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used to record the Sogdian language, a Middle Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This particular letter, named Heth, represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound similar to the "ch" in the German "Bach" or the Hebrew letter Het. Its inclusion in Unicode as part of the Sogdian block (U+10F30 to U+10F6F) supports the digital preservation and study of historical manuscripts, including religious and commercial texts that were crucial for cultural exchange between East and West.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F36 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Letter Heth |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf36 |