U+119B4 "𑦴" Nandinagari Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦴
U+119B4 "𑦴" Nandinagari Letter Cha is part of the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in southern India to write Sanskrit, Kannada, and other languages, particularly in manuscript and inscription contexts. This specific character represents the consonant sound "cha" as in the English word "change," and it belongs to the block of Nandinagari letters that were added to Unicode in version 12.0 in 2019 to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of historical texts. Its glyph features a distinctive curved top line and a central loop, characteristic of Nandinagari’s rounded, flowing style, making it an important tool for linguists and historians working with premodern South Indian documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119B4 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Cha |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddb4 |