U+11001 "𑀁" Brahmi Sign Anusvara Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑀁

U+11001 "𑀁" Brahmi Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Brahmi script, an ancient writing system from the Indian subcontinent. It represents the anusvara, a nasalization symbol that typically indicates a homorganic nasal sound following a vowel or preceding a consonant, and it appears after a character to modify its pronunciation. This character is part of the Brahmi block in Unicode and is encoded for scholarly purposes, including the study of historical texts and inscriptions where this script was employed for languages like Prakrit and Sanskrit.

General Properties

Code Point U+11001
Version Added 6.0
Name Brahmi Sign Anusvara
Block Brahmi
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑀁
HTML Hex Encoding 𑀁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011001
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc01

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Brahmi
Script Extensions Brahmi
Indic Syllabic Category Bindu
Indic Positional Category Top
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend