U+10FC0 "𐿀" Chorasmian Letter Ayin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐿀
U+10FC0 "𐿀" Chorasmian Letter Ayin is a symbol from the extinct Chorasmian script, an ancient writing system used for the Chorasmian language, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the region of Chorasmia in Central Asia. This character represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter 'ayn, and is part of the Unicode block "Chorasmian" added in version 16.0 in 2024. It was encoded to support the scholarly study and digital preservation of historical texts from the pre Islamic era, including inscriptions and manuscripts that document the cultural and linguistic heritage of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10FC0 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Chorasmian Letter Ayin |
| Block | Chorasmian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐿀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐿀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBF 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDFC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010FC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udfc0 |