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𐒏

osmanya letter kaaf

Osmanya Letter Kaaf

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𐒏 is Osmanya’s kaaf, the letter for Somali’s k sound. Osman Yusuf Kenadid devised Osmanya in 1920–1922 to write Somali, following an earlier Arabic-based writing effort; its letter names draw on Arabic. From 1949 to 1960, Somalis debated Arabic, Osmanya, or Latin for their language. Osmanya and Latin were both adopted for use in 1961; Latin became official in 1973, and 𐒏 is a text letter, not an emoji.

Text symbol

What 𐒏 means

𐒏 is the osmanya letter kaaf. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Osmanya block; this site shelves it under African scripts.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𐒏 is a single code point, U1048F. In HTML that is 𐒏, and in CSS \1048F.

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Who writes 𐒏

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𐒏 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

Collections with 𐒏

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How to type or find 𐒏

Search it as
kaaf · cismaanya · far soomaali · somali script
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1048F, then AltX to get 𐒏.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “osmanya letter kaaf”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1048f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐒏
CSS
\1048F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐒏
HTML hex
𐒏
CSS content
content: "\1048F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%92%8F
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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African scripts2,275 symbols