U+1142F "𑐯" Newa Letter Lha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑐯
U+1142F "𑐯" Newa Letter Lha is a glyph used in the Newa script, which is traditionally employed to write the Newar language of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. This particular character represents the aspirated lateral consonant sound, often transliterated as "lha," and forms part of the script's core consonant inventory. It is encoded in the Unicode standard's Newa block, which was added to support the modern digital representation of this historic script, preserving texts ranging from ancient manuscripts to contemporary publications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1142F |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Newa Letter Lha |
| Block | Newa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑐯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑐯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x90 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001142F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc2f |