U+1140E "𑐎" Newa Letter Ka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑐎

U+1140E "𑐎" Newa Letter Ka is the first consonant of the Newa script, known as "Ka," used historically and in the present day for writing the Newar language of Nepal. This character represents the sound /k/ and belongs to the Newa block of Unicode, which was introduced in version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard in 2016 to support the medieval and modern inscriptions of the Kathmandu Valley. As a fundamental element of the Newa script, it is integral to preserving the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Newar community.

General Properties

Code Point U+1140E
Version Added 9.0
Name Newa Letter Ka
Block Newa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑐎
HTML Hex Encoding 𑐎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x90 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDC0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001140E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\udc0e

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 Newa
Script Extensions Newa
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