U+A80F "ꠏ" Syloti Nagri Letter Jho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A80F "ꠏ" Syloti Nagri Letter Jho is a specific glyph within the Syloti Nagri script, an abugida historically used to write the Sylheti language in northeastern Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India. This character represents the aspirated voiced palatal affricate sound /d͡ʒʱ/ and is part of the script's consonant inventory used to preserve the phonetic nuances of Sylheti, a language that has also been written in other scripts like Bengali-Assamese or Latin. While the Syloti Nagri script fell into decline after the late 19th century, it has seen a modest resurgence in modern times due to digital encoding and community efforts to document and revive the language's traditional orthography. Thus, letter "ꠏ" serves as a crucial component for accurately writing native Sylheti words with aspirated sounds, helping to maintain the script's unique linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A80F
Version Added 4.1
Name Syloti Nagri Letter Jho
Block Syloti Nagri
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꠏ
HTML Hex Encoding ꠏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA0 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA80F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A80F
C/C++/Java Escape \ua80f

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 Syloti Nagri
Script Extensions Syloti Nagri
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