U+119CA "𑧊" Nandinagari Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+119CA "𑧊" Nandinagari Letter Va is a character from the Nandinagari script, a historical Brahmic writing system primarily used in southern India, particularly for writing Sanskrit and Kannada texts between the 7th and 19th centuries. This specific character represents the consonant sound "va" and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and scholarly research of ancient manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps ensure that modern computer systems can correctly display and process this script, which is critical for linguists, historians, and cultural heritage projects focused on India's diverse writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119CA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Va |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑧊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑧊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddca |