U+119B6 "𑦶" Nandinagari Letter Jha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑦶

U+119B6 "𑦶" Nandinagari Letter Jha is a script symbol used in the Nandinagari writing system, an ancient and historical Brahmi-derived script primarily employed to write Sanskrit, Kannada, and Marathi in southern India between the 8th and 19th centuries. This character represents the aspirated voiced palatal stop sound corresponding to the Devanagari letter "झ" and the Latin transliteration "jha," playing a critical role in accurately conveying the phonetic inventory of texts written in Nandinagari. Its encoding in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of manuscripts and inscriptions that utilize this script, ensuring that modern computing systems can display and process this historically significant letter without losing its linguistic nuance.

General Properties

Code Point U+119B6
Version Added 12.0
Name Nandinagari Letter Jha
Block Nandinagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑦶
HTML Hex Encoding 𑦶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDDB6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000119B6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\uddb6

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