U+11C15 "ð‘°•" Bhaiksuki Letter Ja Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11C15 "ð‘°•" Bhaiksuki Letter Ja is a component of the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used to write the Sanskrit language, particularly in manuscripts discovered in the Himalayan region of what is now India, Nepal, and Tibet. This specific character represents the consonant "ja" and is part of the Bhaiksuki block in Unicode, which was added in version 9.0 in 2016 to support the scholarly study and digital preservation of this extinct script. The letter is rendered as a distinctive, rounded glyph that aligns with the characteristic aesthetic of Bhaiksuki, which often appears in Buddhist texts and inscriptions dating from around the 6th to the 8th centuries CE. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the accurate encoding and display of historical documents, aiding researchers in linguistics and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+11C15
Version Added 9.0
Name Bhaiksuki Letter Ja
Block Bhaiksuki
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑰕
HTML Hex Encoding 𑰕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDC15
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011C15
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udc15

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 Bhaiksuki
Script Extensions Bhaiksuki
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