U+1048A "𐒊" Osmanya Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒊
U+1048A "𐒊" Osmanya Letter Dha is a specific glyph representing the voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the “th” in the English word “that.” It belongs to the Osmanya script, an alphabetic system devised in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language. This script was created to replace the Arabic alphabet for Somali and was officially used in Somalia for a period, though it was later largely supplanted by the Latin alphabet. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Osmanya block, ensuring its preservation and digital representation for linguistic and historical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1048A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Dha |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001048A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc8a |