U+10F44 "𐽄" Sogdian Letter Lesh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐽄
U+10F44 "𐽄" Sogdian Letter Lesh is a symbol from the Sogdian alphabet, an ancient script used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Central Asia along the Silk Road. This specific character represents the sound /ʃ/, similar to the English "sh", and is part of the Sogdian block in Unicode, which was included to support the digital preservation and study of this historically significant writing system. The script itself evolved from the Aramaic alphabet and later influenced the development of other Central Asian scripts, such as the Old Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets, making the Lesh letter a key component in understanding the linguistic and cultural exchange along the Silk Road.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F44 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Letter Lesh |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐽄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐽄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf44 |