U+11398 "𑎘" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11398 "𑎘" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Cha is a character from the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically used to write the Tulu language in the southwestern region of India, particularly in and around the state of Karnataka. This specific letter represents the sound "cha," which is a voiceless palatal affricate consonant, akin to the "ch" sound in the English word "church." The script belongs to the Brahmic family of writing systems and is closely related to other southern Brahmic scripts like Grantha and Malayalam, though Tulu-Tigalari has its own distinct letter shapes and orthographic traditions. The addition of this character to the Unicode Standard, starting from version 16.0, was an important step in the digital preservation and representation of the Tulu language and its cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+11398
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Letter Cha
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎘
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDF98
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011398
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udf98

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 Aksara
Script Tulu Tigalari
Script Extensions Tulu Tigalari
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break 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