U+104E5 "𐓥" Osage Small Letter Ehka Unicode Character

U+104E5 "𐓥" Osage Small Letter Ehka is a lowercase letter in the Osage script, representing the sound roughly equivalent to the "e" or "eh" vowel in English. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 9.0, released in 2016, as part of the Osage block to support the modern orthography of the Osage language, a Siouan language spoken by the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. This character is distinct from its uppercase counterpart, U+104B5 𐒵, and is used in written communications, educational materials, and cultural revitalization efforts to preserve and promote the Osage language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104E5
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Small Letter Ehka
Block	Osage
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x93 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104E5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udce5

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	"𐒽" U+104BD Osage Capital Letter Ehka
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐒽" U+104BD Osage Capital Letter Ehka
Uppercase Code Point	"𐒽" U+104BD Osage Capital Letter Ehka
Titlecase Code Point	"𐒽" U+104BD Osage Capital Letter Ehka
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