U+11428 "đ¨" Newa Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11428 "đ¨" Newa Letter Bha is a character from the Newa script, which is traditionally used to write the Newar language of Nepal, specifically representing the aspirated voiced bilabial stop consonant sound /bĘą/ similar to the 'bh' in the English word "abhor". This character belongs to the Newa block of the Unicode Standard, encoded to support digital preservation and rendering of historical and contemporary texts in the Newa script, including religious, literary, and administrative documents from the Kathmandu Valley. Its inclusion in Unicode enables consistent representation across modern computing platforms, aiding linguistic research, cultural heritage conservation, and communication for the Newar community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11428 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Newa Letter Bha |
| Block | Newa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑐨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑐨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x90 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011428 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc28 |