U+11004 "𑀄" Brahmi Sign Upadhmaniya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑀄
U+11004 "𑀄" Brahmi Sign Upadhmaniya is a diacritical mark from the historical Brahmi script, an ancient writing system used across the Indian subcontinent. This specific sign, known as Upadhmaniya, functioned as a phonetic modifier that indicated a special aspirated or fricative sound, often representing a voiceless labial or velar fricative depending on its context within a word. It is part of the Brahmi block in the Unicode Standard, helping scholars and linguists digitally preserve and study the nuances of early Indic epigraphy and phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11004 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Sign Upadhmaniya |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011004 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc04 |