U+104DA "𐓚" Osage Small Letter Ain Unicode Character

U+104DA "𐓚" Osage Small Letter Ain is part of the Osage script, which was developed in the early 2000s to write the Osage language of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. This specific character represents the small letter form of the vowel sound "ain," which is pronounced as a nasalized diphthong similar to the "in" in the English word "wine." It belongs to the Osage block of Unicode, which contains both uppercase and lowercase letters crafted to faithfully represent the sounds of the language. The addition of this character to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0 helped support the digital preservation and revitalization of the Osage language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104DA
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Small Letter Ain
Block	Osage
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐓚
HTML Hex Encoding	𐓚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x93 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCDA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104DA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udcda

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"𐒲" U+104B2 Osage Capital Letter Ain
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐒲" U+104B2 Osage Capital Letter Ain
Uppercase Code Point	"𐒲" U+104B2 Osage Capital Letter Ain
Titlecase Code Point	"𐒲" U+104B2 Osage Capital Letter Ain
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower