U+0CAF KANNADA LETTER YA

The Unicode character U+0CAF, officially named KANNADA LETTER YA, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Kannada block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Knda script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.