U+104F9 "𐓹" Osage Small Letter Gha Unicode Character

U+104F9 "𐓹" Osage Small Letter Gha is a lowercase letter in the Osage alphabet, representing a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the "gh" in English "ugh" or the "g" in Spanish "amigo." It is part of the Osage script, which was standardized in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016 to support the modern orthography of the Osage language, spoken by the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. This character specifically corresponds to the uppercase form U+104CF and is used in written Osage to preserve and promote the indigenous language, often appearing in educational materials and cultural documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+104F9
Version Added	9.0
Name	Osage Small Letter Gha
Block	Osage
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐓹
HTML Hex Encoding	𐓹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x93 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD801 0xDCF9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000104F9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud801\udcf9

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	"𐓑" U+104D1 Osage Capital Letter Gha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"𐓑" U+104D1 Osage Capital Letter Gha
Uppercase Code Point	"𐓑" U+104D1 Osage Capital Letter Gha
Titlecase Code Point	"𐓑" U+104D1 Osage Capital Letter Gha
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