U+10C14 "𐰔" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ez Unicode Character

U+10C14 "𐰔" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Ez is a grapheme from the Old Turkic script, specifically the Orkhon alphabet, used primarily to write the historical Turkic language of the 8th century Orkhon inscriptions found in modern-day Mongolia. This character represents a voiced alveolar fricative oraffricate sound, typically transliterated as "z" or "ez" in scholarly works, and it appears in monumental texts that record the deeds of Turkic rulers such as Kül Tigin and Bilge Khagan. As part of the Old Turkic block encoded in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, it facilitates the digital preservation and study of these ancient runiform writings, which are significant for understanding early Turkic culture, language, and history.