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 |