U+1100B "𑀋" Brahmi Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑀋
U+1100B "𑀋" Brahmi Letter Vocalic R is a specific glyph in the Brahmi script, an ancient writing system of South Asia that is the ancestor of many modern Indic scripts, used to write Sanskrit and Prakrit languages. This character represents the syllabic or vocalic form of the consonant 'r', which functions as a vowel in linguistic contexts, allowing the sound to form the nucleus of a syllable, akin to the 'r' sound in English words like "rhythm." It is part of the Brahmi block in the Unicode Standard, supporting digital text representation and scholarly study of historical inscriptions and manuscripts from early South Asian civilizations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1100B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter Vocalic R |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001100B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc0b |