U+104BE "𐒾" Osage Capital Letter Kya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐒾
U+104BE "𐒾" Osage Capital Letter Kya is a letter from the Osage script, which was created in the early 21st century for writing the Osage language spoken by the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. This uppercase character represents the syllable "kya" and is part of a modern alphabet derived from historical Osage orthography, formally encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Osage block (U+104B0 to U+104FF). It is used in written Osage to preserve and revitalize the indigenous language, appearing alongside other uppercase and lowercase characters in texts such as educational materials and official documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+104BE |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Osage Capital Letter Kya |
| Block | Osage |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐒾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐒾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDCBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000104BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udcbe |
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 | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| Lowercase Code Point | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| Simple Case Folding | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| Case Folding | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "𐓦" U+104E6 Osage Small Letter Kya |
| 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 |