U+11C17 "ð‘°—" Bhaiksuki Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11C17 "ð‘°—" Bhaiksuki Letter Nya is a glyph from the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system used historically in parts of South Asia, particularly for writing Buddhist texts in the Sanskrit language. This specific character represents the consonant sound "nya" (similar to the "ñ" in the word "canyon") and belongs to the Bhaiksuki block of the Unicode Standard, encoded as part of the effort to preserve and digitally support historical scripts. Its design features a distinctive curved headstroke and a looped shape, reflecting the calligraphic style of the script found in manuscripts from the 11th to 12th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C17 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bhaiksuki Letter Nya |
| Block | Bhaiksuki |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑰗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑰗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc17 |