U+0849 "ࡉ" Mandaic Letter Aksa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0849 "ࡉ" Mandaic Letter Aksa is a character from the Mandaic script, which was historically used to write the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community. This specific letter represents the sound "ks" and is used within the Mandaic alphabet, a distinct script that features a unique cursive style and is written from right to left. The character is part of the Unicode standard's Mandaic block, which was introduced to preserve and enable digital communication of this endangered script and its associated religious texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+0849
Version Added 6.0
Name Mandaic Letter Aksa
Block Mandaic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࡉ
HTML Hex Encoding ࡉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA1 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0849
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000849
C/C++/Java Escape \u0849

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 Right Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Mandaic
Script Extensions Mandaic
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