U+1139B "𑎛" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑎛

U+1139B "𑎛" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nya is a script character representing the consonant sound "nya" in the Tulu-Tigalari alphabet, which was historically used to write the Tulu language and occasionally other regional languages like Kannada and Sanskrit in the southwestern coastal region of India. This character is part of a recently encoded Unicode block, added in version 16.0 in 2024, reflecting ongoing efforts to digitally preserve and support lesser-known scripts. Its design features the distinctive curved and looped strokes characteristic of the Tigalari script, which is closely related to the Grantha and Malayalam writing systems, and it plays a key role in accurately representing the phonetic inventory of Tulu words that contain the palatal nasal sound.

General Properties

Code Point U+1139B
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nya
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎛
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDF9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001139B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udf9b

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