U+10C36 "𐰶" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Iq Unicode Character

U+10C36 "𐰶" Old Turkic Letter Orkhon Iq is a specific glyph from the Old Turkic script, also known as the Orkhon runes, which was used in Central Asia and Mongolia primarily from the 8th to 10th centuries for inscriptions on stone monuments. This particular letter represents a consonantal sound, typically transliterated as "iq" or "ïq," and forms part of the alphabet employed to write the Old Turkic language of the Göktürk Empire. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard as part of the Old Turkic block, which ranges from U+10C00 to U+10C4F, enables digital representation and study of this ancient writing system, preserving a key artifact of early Turkic history and literature such as the Orkhon inscriptions.