U+113A9 "𑎩" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Bha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑎩

U+113A9 "𑎩" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Bha is a glyph used in the historically significant Tulu-Tigalari script, primarily employed to write the Tulu language in the coastal region of Karnataka, India, and its rectangular shape represents the voiced bilabial aspirated consonant "bha." This character is part of a larger Unicode block, Tulu-Tigalari, which was added to the standard in 2023 to support the digital preservation and revival of this ancient script, allowing for accurate encoding of religious, literary, and everyday texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+113A9
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Letter Bha
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎩
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDFA9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000113A9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udfa9

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