U+10A28 "๐จจ" Kharoshthi Letter Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐จจ

U+10A28 "๐จจ" Kharoshthi Letter Ma is a glyph from the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was used primarily in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This character represents the consonant "ma" and is part of an abugida writing system, where each basic character denotes a syllable with an inherent vowel sound. The Kharoshthi script itself is written from right to left and was employed for recording texts in Prakrit and Sanskrit, often found on inscriptions, coins, and manuscripts documenting Buddhist teachings and administrative records of the Gandhara civilization.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A28
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Letter Ma
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐨨
HTML Hex Encoding 𐨨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE28
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A28
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude28

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