U+10F3D "𐼽" Sogdian Letter Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐼽
U+10F3D "𐼽" Sogdian Letter Ayin is a glyph from the Sogdian script, which was historically used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This particular letter represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative or approximant sound akin to the Arabic letter "ayn," functioning as a consonant in Sogdian orthography. It belongs to the Sogdian block in Unicode, which was added in the version 11.0 standard released in 2018 to support the digital encoding of ancient texts and inscriptions from the Sogdian cultural sphere.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F3D |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Letter Ayin |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐼽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐼽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf3d |