U+11C99 "𑲙" Marchen Subjoined Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲙
U+11C99 "𑲙" Marchen Subjoined Letter Nya is a glyph from the Marchen script, an abugida historically used to write the Zhang-Zhung language in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, particularly in the ancient kingdom of Shangshung. This specific character represents the consonant sound "nya" in a subjoined or subscript form, meaning it is designed to attach beneath another consonant to create a conjunct or cluster, as opposed to standing alone as an independent letter. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital texts and fonts can accurately represent this script, preserving its role in religious and historical manuscripts from the Himalayan region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C99 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Nya |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc99 |