U+10A21 "๐จก" Kharoshthi Letter Da Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐จก

U+10A21 "๐จก" Kharoshthi Letter Da is a symbol from the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was used between approximately the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE in regions that are now parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to write languages like Gandhari and Sanskrit. This particular character represents the voiced dental stop sound "da" and is a fundamental consonant letter in the abugida writing system of Kharoshthi, where each consonant inherently carries a short vowel sound that can be modified with diacritical marks. The script was primarily written from right to left and appears in many important historical inscriptions and Buddhist texts, such as those found on the renowned Gandharan scrolls of the ancient Buddhist tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A21
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Da
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨡
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A21
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude21

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