U+10487 "𐒇" Osmanya Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒇
U+10487 "𐒇" Osmanya Letter Ra is a symbol from the Osmanya script, an alphabet created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language, representing the consonant sound "r". This script was part of an effort to provide a native writing system for Somalia, distinct from the Arabic and Latin scripts, and was used briefly before the Latin alphabet became the official writing system for Somali. The letter appears as a distinct glyph in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing for digital preservation and representation of this historical orthography in modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10487 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Ra |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010487 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc87 |