U+1168D "𑚍" Takri Letter Gha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑚍

U+1168D "𑚍" Takri Letter Gha is a specific glyph from the Takri script, an abugida historically used for writing several languages in the Himalayan region, such as Dogri and Kangri. This character represents the voiced velar aspirated consonant sound "gha," akin to the breathy "gh" found in Hindi or other South Asian languages. As part of the Takri block in Unicode, it was encoded to preserve the script's unique calligraphic style and its role in documenting cultural and linguistic heritage, particularly in older manuscripts and inscriptions from the region.

General Properties

Code Point U+1168D
Version Added 6.1
Name Takri Letter Gha
Block Takri
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑚍
HTML Hex Encoding 𑚍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x9A 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDE8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001168D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\ude8d

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 Takri
Script Extensions Takri
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