U+1057 "ၗ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1057 "ၗ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a diacritic mark used in the Myanmar script to represent a vocalic "rr" sound, specifically a long retroflex vowel derived from the Pali and Sanskrit languages. It is typically placed as an attaching sign following a consonant character, modifying that consonant to produce the vocalic r vowel, which appears in words of Indic origin. This character is part of the Myanmar block in Unicode and is essential for the accurate transcription and digital representation of historical or liturgical texts within the Burmese writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+1057
Version Added 3.0
Name Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr
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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1057
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001057
C/C++/Java Escape \u1057

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 Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend