U+10F40 "𐽀" Sogdian Letter Resh-Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐽀
U+10F40 "𐽀" Sogdian Letter Resh-Ayin is a distinctive glyph from the Sogdian script, an ancient writing system used for the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language once spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This character represents a specific sound, a combined articulation of the letter resh (representing a rhotic consonant like "r") and ayin (typically signifying a voiced pharyngeal or glottal fricative), and it appears in Sogdian texts dating from around the 4th to 10th centuries. Its encoding in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the historical Sogdian script, enabling scholars and enthusiasts to study and use this extinct language in modern electronic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F40 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Letter Resh-Ayin |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐽀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐽀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf40 |