U+086A "ࡪ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Ssa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+086A "ࡪ" Syriac Letter Malayalam Ssa is a relatively rare and specialized glyph within the Unicode standard, specifically designed to represent a phonetic sound found in the Malayalam language using the Syriac script. It is part of the Syriac Supplement block, which was added to Unicode to support the writing of various languages historically written in the Syriac script, including certain dialects and liturgical uses. This particular letter is used to transcribe the retroflex or alveolar sibilant sound from Malayalam, a Dravidian language of southern India, into the Syriac alphabet. Its inclusion facilitates accurate transliteration and scholarly work involving historical Syriac manuscripts or modern encoding needs for communities that use Syriac script for Malayalam.

General Properties

Code Point U+086A
Version Added 10.0
Name Syriac Letter Malayalam Ssa
Block Syriac Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࡪ
HTML Hex Encoding ࡪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA1 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x086A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000086A
C/C++/Java Escape \u086a

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
Joining Group Malayalam Ssa
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Syriac
Script Extensions Syriac
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