U+1048B "𐒋" Osmanya Letter Cayn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒋
U+1048B "𐒋" Osmanya Letter Cayn is part of the Osmanya script block, which was created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language. This specific letter represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter 'ayn, and is used in the Osmanya alphabet as a distinct consonant. The character is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and was added to the Unicode Standard in version 4.0, released in 2003, to support the digital representation of this historic Somali writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1048B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Cayn |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001048B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc8b |