U+119A0 "𑦠" Nandinagari Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+119A0 "𑦠" Nandinagari Letter A is a glyph representing the vowel 'a' in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in southern India for writing Sanskrit and Kannada, particularly in inscriptions and manuscripts from the medieval period. This character corresponds to the inherent vowel sound that is not typically written in many Indic scripts, but the Nandinagari Letter A explicitly denotes the short 'a' phoneme, serving as a distinct base form for syllabic construction. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and study of this historic script, which is related to other Nagari scripts like Devanagari but features unique stylistic elements and character shapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119A0 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter A |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udda0 |