U+10483 "𐒃" Osmanya Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒃
U+10483 "𐒃" Osmanya Letter Ja is a letter from the Osmanya script, which was invented in the early 1920s by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language. This specific character represents the sound /ɖ/ in standard Somali, a voiced retroflex plosive that is a distinctive consonant in the language. The Osmanya script was designed as an indigenous alternative to Latin and Arabic scripts for Somali, and despite falling out of official use, it remains a symbol of cultural heritage and is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Osmanya block for digital preservation and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10483 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Ja |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010483 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc83 |