U+119AF "𑦯" Nandinagari Letter Kha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦯
U+119AF "𑦯" Nandinagari Letter Kha is a specific glyph from the Nandinagari script, a historical Brahmic abugida primarily used in southern India to write Sanskrit and Kannada between the 8th and 16th centuries. This character represents the aspirated voiceless velar plosive sound "kha" (phonetically /kÊ°a/), distinguishing it from the unaspirated "ka" by an added aspiration diacritic or a distinct letterform. It belongs to the Nandinagari Unicode block (U+119A0–U+119D7), which was added to the standard in 2022 as part of Version 15.0 to preserve and digitally encode a script once vital for inscribing temple inscriptions and manuscripts, reflecting the region's historical literary and religious traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119AF |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Kha |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddaf |