U+11CA9 "𑲩" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲩
U+11CA9 "𑲩" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ya is a grapheme from the Marchen script, an ancient abugida historically used in the Tibetan cultural sphere to write the extinct Zhangzhung language. This specific character represents a subjoined form of the consonant "ya," which, when attached to a preceding base consonant, creates a conjunct or ligature indicating a ya-phala (ya-descender) type of consonant cluster. As part of the Marchen block (U+11C70 to U+11CBF), this character was encoded in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016 to support the scholarly and digital preservation of written Zhangzhung texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11CA9 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Ya |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDCA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011CA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udca9 |