U+1100F "𑀏" Brahmi Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑀏

U+1100F "𑀏" Brahmi Letter E is a glyph from the Brahmi script, one of the earliest writing systems used in the Indian subcontinent, representing the vowel sound "e" in its classical form. This character is part of the Brahmi block in Unicode, which was included to support the scholarly study and digital preservation of ancient inscriptions. The Brahmi script is historically significant as the ancestor of many modern South Asian and Southeast Asian scripts, and the letter E appears in historical texts dating back to the early centuries BCE. Its encoding in Unicode allows researchers, linguists, and digital humanists to accurately display and analyze this ancient symbol in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1100F
Version Added 6.0
Name Brahmi Letter E
Block Brahmi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑀏
HTML Hex Encoding 𑀏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC0F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001100F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc0f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara
Script Brahmi
Script Extensions Brahmi
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter