OSMANYA LETTER CAYN character

OSMANYA LETTER CAYN
U+1048B
66699
𐒋
𐒋
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Osmanya
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
𐒋












OSMANYA LETTER CAYN is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of OSMANYA LETTER CAYN is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Osmanya block. The Osmanya block contains characters used in the Osmanya script, which was created in the early 20th century by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language. The script is alphabetic, with 32 letters representing the sounds of Somali. Osmanya was one of several scripts proposed for Somali before the Latin alphabet was officially adopted. Although it is not widely used today, Osmanya remains a significant part of Somali cultural history and is still used in some contexts. This block includes all the characters of the Osmanya script, reflecting its role in the linguistic heritage of Somalia..