U+1909 "ᤉ" Limbu Letter Jha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1909 "ᤉ" Limbu Letter Jha is a character from the Limbu script, an abugida traditionally used to write the Limbu language spoken primarily in Nepal and parts of India, such as Sikkim and Darjeeling. This specific letter represents the aspirated voiced palato-alveolar affricate sound similar to the "jha" in South Asian languages, and it functions as a consonant in the Limbu writing system, which is read from left to right. The Limbu script, also known as Sirijanga, was revived in the 20th century and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and communication of this indigenous script.

General Properties

Code Point U+1909
Version Added 4.0
Name Limbu Letter Jha
Block Limbu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᤉ
HTML Hex Encoding ᤉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA4 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1909
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001909
C/C++/Java Escape \u1909

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 Limbu
Script Extensions Limbu
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