U+10A1E "𐨞" Kharoshthi Letter Nna Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐨞

U+10A1E "𐨞" Kharoshthi Letter Nna is a glyph from the Kharoshthi script, an ancient abugida historically used to write the Gāndhārī language and other Prakrits in parts of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the retroflex nasal consonant "ṇa," which is pronounced with the tongue curled back against the palate, and it is distinguished from the dental nasal "na" in the script. Within the Kharoshthi writing system, which is written from right to left, the letter Nna appears as a complex, angular symbol often resembling a hooked or looped shape, and it was an essential component for accurately transcribing the phonetic distinctions of the languages it recorded.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A1E
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Nna
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨞
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A1E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude1e

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