U+1119B "𑆛" Sharada Letter Tta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑆛

U+1119B "𑆛" Sharada Letter Tta is a specific glyph representing the retroflex consonant sound /ʈa/ in the Sharada script, an ancient writing system historically used across the Kashmir region and parts of northern India for writing Sanskrit, Kashmiri, and other languages. This character belongs to the Sharada block of the Unicode Standard, encoded under Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane), and is primarily used in academic, liturgical, and historical contexts for the accurate transcription of classical texts. Its distinctive curved and angular shape reflects the script’s evolution from the Gupta Brahmi family, and it remains significant for preserving the linguistic heritage of South Asian epigraphy and manuscript traditions.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑆛
HTML Hex Encoding 𑆛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001119B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd9b

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