U+10A19 "𐨙" Kharoshthi Letter Nya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐨙

U+10A19 "𐨙" Kharoshthi Letter Nya is a glyph representing a specific consonant sound in the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was historically used to write the Gāndhārī Prakrit language and other Middle Indo-Aryan dialects from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE in regions such as modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. This character corresponds to the palatal nasal sound "nya" similar to the "ñ" in the word "canyon" and was utilized in a right-to-left writing system that appears on coins, manuscripts, and inscriptions from the Gandharan civilization. As part of the Kharoshthi block in the Unicode Standard, it preserves an essential element of the region's linguistic heritage and helps scholars accurately transcribe historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A19
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Nya
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨙
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE19
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A19
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude19

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