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

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