U+10F4C "𐽌" Sogdian Combining Hook Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐽌
U+10F4C "𐽌" Sogdian Combining Hook Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Sogdian script, an ancient writing system employed for the Sogdian language, which was a Middle Iranian language spoken in Central Asia. This character is designed to be placed above another base character to modify its pronunciation or grammatical function, specifically adding a hook-like shape that likely indicated a particular phonetic nuance such as aspiration or a change in vowel quality. It belongs to the Sogdian block of the Unicode Standard, which supports the transcription of historical texts and inscriptions from the Sogdian cultural sphere, reflecting the script's right-to-left directionality and its adaptation from the Aramaic alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10F4C |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Sogdian Combining Hook Above |
| Block | Sogdian |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐽌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐽌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBD 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDF4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010F4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udf4c |