U+1119A "𑆚" Sharada Letter Nya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑆚

U+1119A "𑆚" Sharada Letter Nya is a glyph from the Sharada script, an abugida historically used to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, particularly in Kashmir. This specific character represents the palatal nasal consonant sound "nya", akin to the "ñ" in the word "canyon", and is part of the script's inventory of consonant letters. The Sharada script, which is a direct ancestor of the modern Gurmukhi and Devanagari scripts, is today primarily employed for ceremonial or scholarly purposes, and the inclusion of this letter in the Unicode Standard facilitates accurate digital representation and preservation of historical manuscripts and texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1119A
Version Added 6.1
Name Sharada Letter Nya
Block Sharada
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑆚
HTML Hex Encoding 𑆚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001119A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd9a

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 Sharada
Script Extensions Sharada
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