U+1168C "𑚌" Takri Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑚌
U+1168C "𑚌" Takri Letter Ga is a character from the Takri script, a historical writing system primarily used in the Himalayan regions of northern India, including Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab, before being largely replaced by Devanagari. This specific character represents the voiced velar plosive consonant "ga" and serves as a fundamental component in writing the Takri language, which was employed for transcribing various local dialects and administrative documents. The inclusion of this letter in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally support this endangered script, enabling modern text processing and cultural heritage documentation for scholars and communities connected to the region's linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1168C |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Takri Letter Ga |
| Block | Takri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑚌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑚌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9A 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDE8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001168C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\ude8c |