U+1C09 "ᰉ" Lepcha Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᰉ
U+1C09 "ᰉ" Lepcha Letter Nya is a specific glyph representing the palatal nasal consonant sound akin to the 'ny' in 'canyon,' and it belongs to the Lepcha script, an abugida historically used to write the Lepcha language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Sikkim and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This character is part of a larger set of letters that were encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and modern use of the Lepcha script, which has seen a revival in recent years for education and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C09 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Nya |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c09 |