U+104BD "𐒽" Osage Capital Letter Ehka Unicode Character

U+104BD "𐒽" Osage Capital Letter Ehka is a glyph from the Osage script, which was created in the early 20th century by the Osage Nation to write their language and is encoded in Unicode's Osage block. This specific character represents the capital form of the letter that denotes a sound similar to the "eh" or "e" vowel in English, and it is used in modern Osage orthography for proper names and the beginning of sentences. Its inclusion in Unicode since version 9.0 in 2016 supports the preservation and digital use of the Osage language, reflecting a broader effort to revitalize indigenous writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104BD
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Capital Letter Ehka
Block	Osage
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐒽
HTML Hex Encoding	𐒽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x92 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCBD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104BD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udcbd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
Lowercase Code Point	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
Simple Case Folding	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
Case Folding	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
NFKC Simple Casefold	"𐓥" U+104E5 Osage Small Letter Ehka
Script	Osage
Script Extensions	Osage
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper