U+104E6 "𐓦" Osage Small Letter Kya Unicode Character

U+104E6 "𐓦" Osage Small Letter Kya is part of the Osage script, a writing system created in the early 19th century for the Osage language spoken by the Osage Nation in the United States. This specific character represents the small letter form for the sound "kya," corresponding to its uppercase counterpart U+104BC "𐒼" Osage Capital Letter Kya. The Osage script was added to the Unicode Standard in Version 9.0, released in June 2016, as part of a broader effort to support indigenous and endangered languages digitally. The character is used in modern orthography to preserve and revitalize the Osage language, reflecting the phonetic structure of the language within a unique alphabet that blends Latin-derived shapes with original glyphs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104E6
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Small Letter Kya
Block	Osage
General Category	Lowercase 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 0x93 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCE6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104E6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udce6

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	"𐒾" U+104BE Osage Capital Letter Kya
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐒾" U+104BE Osage Capital Letter Kya
Uppercase Code Point	"𐒾" U+104BE Osage Capital Letter Kya
Titlecase Code Point	"𐒾" U+104BE Osage Capital Letter Kya
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