U+11197 "𑆗" Sharada Letter Cha Unicode Character

U+11197 "𑆗" Sharada Letter Cha is a glyph representing the aspirated voiceless palatal plosive consonant sound "cha" in the Sharada script, an ancient abugida historically used to write the Kashmiri, Sanskrit, and other languages in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent from around the 8th century CE onward. This character belongs to the Sharada block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in version 6.1 in 2012 to support the digital rendering of this endangered script, known for its distinctive rounded and flowing forms that evolved from the Brahmi script family. Its use today is largely confined to scholarly and cultural contexts, as the script has been largely supplanted by Devanagari and Perso-Arabic scripts for everyday communication.