U+10F80 "𐾀" Old Uyghur Letter Taw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10F80 "𐾀" Old Uyghur Letter Taw is a script symbol from the Old Uyghur alphabet, used historically to write texts in the Old Uyghur language, primarily between the 8th and 13th centuries in Central Asia, particularly in regions like Turfan and Dunhuang. This letter represents the dental or alveolar plosive sound /t/, corresponding to the Semitic letter "taw" from which it is derived via the Sogdian script, and it appears in religious, legal, and literary manuscripts, often written in a vertical cursive style. The inclusion of U+10F80 in Unicode, under the "Old Uyghur" block added in version 14.0 (2021), helps preserve and digitally encode this extinct script, aiding scholars in the study of Turkic linguistics, Buddhist literature, and the historical transmission of writing systems along the Silk Road.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐾀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐾀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xBE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD803 0xDF80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00010F80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud803\udf80 |
Unicode Properties