U+110AD "ð‘‚­" Kaithi Letter Ssa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+110AD "ð‘‚­" Kaithi Letter Ssa is a glyph from the Kaithi script, an abugida historically used to write languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri, and Magahi in northern India from the 16th through the 20th centuries. This character represents the retroflex sibilant consonant sound /Ê‚/, which is distinct from the more common dental sibilant. As part of the Kaithi block in Unicode, it helps preserve and digitize a significant aspect of India's writing heritage, allowing modern electronic texts to accurately represent historical documents and regional literature that used this script.

General Properties

Code Point U+110AD
Version Added 5.2
Name Kaithi Letter Ssa
Block Kaithi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑂭
HTML Hex Encoding 𑂭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x82 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDCAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000110AD
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udcad

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 Kaithi
Script Extensions Kaithi
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