U+111A8 "𑆨" Sharada Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑆨
U+111A8 "𑆨" Sharada Letter Bha is a glyph representing the aspirated bilabial consonant sound "bha" in the Sharada script, an ancient writing system historically used in the Kashmir region and parts of northern India for writing Sanskrit, Kashmiri, and other languages. This character is part of the Sharada block in Unicode, and its calligraphic form is characterized by a distinctive curved top and a descending stroke that distinguishes it from other letters in the script. The Sharada Letter Bha is employed in scholarly and religious manuscripts, particularly for recording Vedic texts and Hindu epics, and it remains significant for linguistic and paleographic studies of South Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111A8 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Bha |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udda8 |