U+10A1B "𐨛" Kharoshthi Letter Ttha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐨛

U+10A1B "𐨛" Kharoshthi Letter Ttha is a character from the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system used primarily in the regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This specific letter represents the aspirated voiceless retroflex stop sound /ʈʰ/, equivalent to the sound of "th" in Indian languages like Sanskrit, and is typically transliterated as "ṭha." The Kharoshthi script was written from right to left and was employed for recording texts in Gandhari Prakrit and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages, notably for Buddhist manuscripts such as the Gandharan Buddhist texts. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character ensures the digital preservation and representation of this historically significant script for modern computing and scholarly research.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A1B
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Ttha
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨛
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE1B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A1B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude1b

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