U+111A9 "𑆩" Sharada Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑆩
U+111A9 "𑆩" Sharada Letter Ma is a character from the historical Sharada script used primarily in the Kashmir region and parts of the northwestern Indian subcontinent from around the 8th to the 12th century CE. It represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound "ma" and forms part of the abugida writing system where each character inherently carries the vowel "a". This script was instrumental in writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri texts, including important manuscripts, and is a key element in the study of South Asian paleography and linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111A9 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Ma |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udda9 |