U+1056 "ၖ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၖ
U+1056 "ၖ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to represent a vocalic r sound, primarily found in historical or scholarly transcriptions of Pali and Sanskrit texts within the Myanmar writing tradition. This character modifies a base consonant to indicate the presence of this specific vowel, which is not commonly used in everyday modern Burmese but appears in liturgical or academic contexts where ancient Indic languages are transliterated. Visually, it appears as a small attached symbol that alters the pronunciation of the syllable, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital documentation and rendering of these specialized texts remain accurate and consistent across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1056 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1056 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001056 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1056 |