U+10A10 "𐨐" Kharoshthi Letter Ka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐨐

U+10A10 "𐨐" Kharoshthi Letter Ka is a glyph representing the consonant "ka" in the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system used from the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE primarily in the regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia for writing Gandhari Prakrit and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages. This alphasyllabic character is notable for its distinctive angular and connected forms, reflecting the script's adaptation from the earlier Aramaic alphabet. Kharoshthi, written from right to left, was employed on important artifacts such as the Gandharan Buddhist texts and the edicts of King Ashoka, and the letter Ka, like other Kharoshthi consonants, carries an inherent vowel sound that could be modified or suppressed by diacritical marks, making it a fundamental component of the script's phonetic system.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A10
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Ka
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨐
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE10
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A10
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude10

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
Script Kharoshthi
Script Extensions Kharoshthi
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
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 OLetter