U+1108D "𑂍" Kaithi Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑂍
U+1108D "𑂍" Kaithi Letter Ka is a glyph representing the consonant "ka" in the Kaithi script, an historical writing system used primarily in northern India, especially in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, for languages such as Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and Maithili. This character belongs to the Kaithi block of the Unicode Standard, which was added in version 5.1 in 2008 to support the digitization of historical manuscripts and records. Visually, the letter resembles a curved, open shape with a vertical stroke, and it functions as the base form from which modified consonant clusters and vowel marks are built in the script's orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1108D |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Kaithi Letter Ka |
| Block | Kaithi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑂍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑂍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x82 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001108D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc8d |