U+10485 "𐒅" Osmanya Letter Kha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒅
U+10485 "𐒅" Osmanya Letter Kha is a character in the Osmanya script, which was created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language. This specific letter represents the voiceless velar fricative sound /χ/, akin to the "ch" in the Scottish "loch." The Osmanya script was designed as a phonetic alternative to the Latin and Arabic scripts traditionally used for Somali, and it was officially adopted in Somalia for a period, though its usage declined after the Latin script became standard following the 1972 Somali script reform.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10485 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Kha |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010485 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc85 |