U+1059 "ၙ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၙ
U+1059 "ၙ" Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a diacritic mark used in the Myanmar script to represent a vocalic lateral sound, specifically a syllabic "ll" vowel, as found in certain scholarly or historical transcriptions of Pali and Sanskrit texts. It appears as a combining sign placed above or attached to a base consonant, modifying its pronunciation to produce a pure vowel-like lateral resonance rather than a standard consonant plus vowel sequence. This character is part of the Myanmar block in Unicode and is employed primarily in religious and academic contexts to accurately render ancient Indic languages, where such vocalic liquids are distinguished from their consonant counterparts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1059 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1059 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001059 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1059 |