U+1100A "𑀊" Brahmi Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1100A "𑀊" Brahmi Letter Uu is a glyph representing the vowel sound "uu" in the ancient Brahmi script, which was used across the Indian subcontinent from roughly the 3rd century BCE onward to write various early Prakrit and Sanskrit texts. This character belongs to the Brahmi block in Unicode and is historically significant because Brahmi served as the precursor to numerous modern writing systems in South and Southeast Asia, including Devanagari, Tamil, and Thai. Visually, the character resembles an angular, open shape with a curved tail, distinguishing it from the shorter vowel "u" in the same script. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and study of ancient inscriptions and manuscripts, aiding linguists and historians in decoding early Indian epigraphy.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑀊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑀊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD804 0xDC0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001100A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud804\udc0a |
Unicode Properties