U+119B8 "𑦸" Nandinagari Letter Tta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦸
U+119B8 "𑦸" Nandinagari Letter Tta is a consonant from the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in southern India to write Sanskrit and Kannada texts. This specific character represents the retroflex stop sound "ṭ" (like the "t" in "turtle" but with the tongue curled back) and is part of the Unicode block allocated for Nandinagari, which was added to the standard in 2018. The letter is typically used in manuscripts and inscriptions from medieval Karnataka, contributing to the preservation of linguistic heritage for scholars and digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119B8 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Tta |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddb8 |