U+1048D "𐒍" Osmanya Letter Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒍
U+1048D "𐒍" Osmanya Letter Fa is a letter in the Osmanya script, which was created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid to write the Somali language, representing the voiceless labiodental fricative sound /f/. It is part of the Osmanya block in Unicode, which was added to support the revitalization of this indigenous Somali writing system, distinct from the Latin and Arabic scripts more commonly used for Somali today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1048D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Osmanya Letter Fa |
| Block | Osmanya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDC8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001048D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udc8d |