U+10F72 "𐽲" Old Uyghur Letter Gimel-Heth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐽲

U+10F72 "𐽲" Old Uyghur Letter Gimel-Heth is a character from the Old Uyghur script, which was used to write the Old Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken in Central Asia from roughly the 8th to the 14th century. This particular letter represents a ligature combining the sounds of gimel and heth, two consonants that likely correspond to the phonetic values /ɣ/ and /χ/ or similar velar and uvular fricatives, and it forms part of the script’s adaptation of the Sogdian alphabet, itself derived from Syriac. The Old Uyghur script was historically important for recording Buddhist, Manichaean, and Nestorian Christian texts among the Uyghur people, and this character contributes to the script’s ability to represent the specific phonological nuances of the Turkic language it transcribed.

General Properties

Code Point U+10F72
Version Added 14.0
Name Old Uyghur Letter Gimel-Heth
Block Old Uyghur
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐽲
HTML Hex Encoding 𐽲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xBD 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD803 0xDF72
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010F72
C/C++/Java Escape \ud803\udf72

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Old Uyghur
Script Extensions Old Uyghur
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter