U+119B3 "𑦳" Nandinagari Letter Ca Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑦳

U+119B3 "𑦳" Nandinagari Letter Ca is a specific glyph from the Nandinagari script, a historical Brahmic writing system primarily used from the 7th to the 19th centuries to write Sanskrit, Kannada, and other languages in South India. This character represents the consonant sound "ca" (similar to the English "cha" in "chat") and, as a typical abugida letter, it carries an inherent vowel, most commonly the short 'a' sound. The Nandinagari script is closely related to other Nagari scripts and was often employed in inscriptions and manuscripts, yet it is now largely obsolete in everyday writing. Its inclusion in Unicode since version 12.0 (2019) ensures that scholars and digital historians can accurately encode and represent this ancient script for linguistic research and archival preservation.

General Properties

Code Point U+119B3
Version Added 12.0
Name Nandinagari Letter Ca
Block Nandinagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑦳
HTML Hex Encoding 𑦳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDDB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000119B3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\uddb3

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 Nandinagari
Script Extensions Nandinagari
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