U+A998 "ꦘ" Javanese Letter Nya Murda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꦘ
U+A998 "ꦘ" Javanese Letter Nya Murda is a specific glyph used in the Javanese script, representing a capital or honorific form of the sound "nya," which is a palatal nasal consonant. It is part of the "murda" set of letters, which are historically reserved for writing Javanese words with special respect, such as names of revered figures, deities, or royal titles. This character appears in the Unicode Block "Javanese" and is encoded for digital text representation to preserve the cultural and linguistic traditions of the Javanese language, particularly in formal and ceremonial contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A998 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Letter Nya Murda |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA998 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A998 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua998 |