U+11007 "𑀇" Brahmi Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑀇
U+11007 "𑀇" Brahmi Letter I is a representation of the vowel sound "i" in the ancient Brahmi script, one of the earliest writing systems used in South Asia, dating back to the 3rd century BCE. This character belongs to the Brahmi block of the Unicode Standard, which was introduced to support the encoding of historical scripts for scholarly and digital preservation purposes. As a syllabic letter, it appears in inscriptions and manuscripts from the Mauryan and post-Mauryan periods, contributing to the understanding of early Indian languages such as Prakrit and Sanskrit. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers and linguists can accurately reproduce and study these ancient texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11007 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter I |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC07 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011007 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc07 |