U+119B5 "𑦵" Nandinagari Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+119B5 "𑦵" Nandinagari Letter Ja is a glyph from the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic abugida historically used in southern India, particularly in the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu regions, for writing Sanskrit and other languages. This specific character represents the consonant "ja" and is part of a script that served as a precursor to modern scripts like Kannada and Telugu. The Nandinagari script is named after the Nandi bull, a symbol of the Hindu god Shiva, and is primarily found in inscriptions and manuscripts dating from the 8th to the 19th centuries. As a letter in this historic script, "Ja" contributes to the documentation of a significant linguistic and cultural heritage that bridges ancient and contemporary writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119B5 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Ja |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddb5 |