U+10A22 "𐨢" Kharoshthi Letter Dha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐨢

U+10A22 "𐨢" Kharoshthi Letter Dha is a glyph representing the aspirated voiced dental plosive consonant sound "dha" in the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was used from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE in regions encompassing modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India, primarily to write the Gandhari language. This script is written from right to left and is directly associated with the Indo-Greek, Saka, and Kushan empires, with its characters derived from the Aramaic alphabet. The letter 𐨢 belongs to the Kharoshthi block (U+10A00 to U+10A5F) of the Unicode Standard, ensuring its digital preservation and study.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A22
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Dha
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨢
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE22
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A22
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude22

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