U+119C5 "ð‘§…" Nandinagari Letter Bha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+119C5 "𑧅" Nandinagari Letter Bha is a glyph representing the aspirated bilabial consonant "bha" in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used to write Sanskrit, Marathi, and occasionally Kannada across parts of South India. This character belongs to the Nandinagari Unicode block, which was added to the standard in 2018 to support epigraphical and manuscript texts, particularly those found in temple inscriptions and palm‑leaf documents from the medieval Deccan region. Its visual design typically features a distinctive curved top stroke and a vertical stem, reflecting the flowing calligraphic style common to Nandinagari. The addition of this character helps scholars digitally preserve and study the linguistic and historical records written in this script.

General Properties

Code Point U+119C5
Version Added 12.0
Name Nandinagari Letter Bha
Block Nandinagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑧅
HTML Hex Encoding 𑧅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA7 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDDC5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000119C5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\uddc5

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