U+1E296 "𞊖" Toto Letter Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞊖

U+1E296 "𞊖" Toto Letter Ma is a glyph within the Toto script, representing the syllable or sound "ma" in the Toto language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Toto people in the Indian state of West Bengal, primarily in the village of Totopara and surrounding areas. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 14.0 in September 2021, which was a significant milestone as it provided digital representation for the Toto writing system, an endangered script that was only developed in the early 20th century by a local indigenous leader. The inclusion of Toto Letter Ma and other Toto characters helps preserve and support the linguistic heritage and modern communication of the Toto community, enabling proper typed text, educational resources, and digital preservation of their language.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E296
Version Added 14.0
Name Toto Letter Ma
Block Toto
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𞊖
HTML Hex Encoding 𞊖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9E 0x8A 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD838 0xDE96
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001E296
C/C++/Java Escape \ud838\ude96

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 Toto
Script Extensions Toto
Indic Syllabic Category Other
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