U+1102C "𑀬" Brahmi Letter Ya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1102C "𑀬" Brahmi Letter Ya is a glyph representing the consonant 'ya' in the ancient Brahmi script, which is one of the earliest writing systems used in South Asia and the progenitor of many modern Indic scripts such as Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil. This character is part of the Brahmi block in Unicode, specifically encoded under the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, and it was added to the standard in 2010 to support the scholarly study and digital representation of historical inscriptions and manuscripts. The letter "Ya" in Brahmi is typically shaped as a curved, open form that resembles a modern letter 'Y', and it was used to write a variety of ancient languages including Prakrit and Sanskrit, making it a key piece in understanding the evolution of writing in the Indian subcontinent.

General Properties

Code Point U+1102C
Version Added 6.0
Name Brahmi Letter Ya
Block Brahmi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑀬
HTML Hex Encoding 𑀬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC2C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001102C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc2c

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 Aksara
Script Brahmi
Script Extensions Brahmi
Indic Syllabic Category 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