U+16AA8 "𖪨" Tangsa Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖪨
U+16AA8 "𖪨" Tangsa Letter Nya is a specific glyph representing a consonant sound in the Tangsa script, which is used to write the Tangsa language spoken primarily by communities in northeastern India and neighboring Myanmar. This character corresponds to the voiced palatal nasal sound, similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon," and forms an essential part of the Tangsa alphabet, which was developed in the late 20th century and later encoded into the Unicode Standard in 2020 under version 14.0. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Tangsa language and its cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AA8 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tangsa Letter Nya |
| Block | Tangsa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖪨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖪨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udea8 |