U+1054 "ၔ" Myanmar Letter Vocalic L Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1054 "ၔ" Myanmar Letter Vocalic L is a character used in the Myanmar script to represent the vocalic "L" sound, specifically as a vowel that derives from the Indic vocalic liquid consonants found in Pali and Sanskrit texts. It functions as an independent vowel letter, distinct from the consonant-based vocalic forms, and is primarily utilized in scholarly or religious transliterations where the original Sanskrit or Pali vowel sound must be accurately preserved, rather than in common modern Burmese usage. Visually, it resembles a circular or looped shape with a vertical stem, consistent with the structural style of other Myanmar script characters, and it occupies a specific code point in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1054
Version Added 3.0
Name Myanmar Letter Vocalic L
Block Myanmar
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ၔ
HTML Hex Encoding ၔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x81 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1054
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001054
C/C++/Java Escape \u1054

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter