U+11496 "ð‘’–" Tirhuta Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘’–
U+11496 "ð‘’–" Tirhuta Letter Ja is a glyph from the Tirhuta script, an abugida historically used to write the Maithili language primarily in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. This character represents the voiced palatal stop consonant sound "ja," analogous to the "j" sound in English, and serves as a fundamental component of the Tirhuta writing system which has seen a modern resurgence in cultural and scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11496 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Tirhuta Letter Ja |
| Block | Tirhuta |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑒖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑒖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x92 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011496 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc96 |