U+11010 "𑀐" Brahmi Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑀐
U+11010 "𑀐" Brahmi Letter Ai is a historical script character representing a vowel sound from the Brahmi abugida, one of the earliest writing systems used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE. This specific character denotes the long vowel "ai" and is part of the Brahmi block in Unicode, which was added to preserve and encode ancient Indic scripts for digital use. The Brahmi script is considered the ancestor of many modern South and Southeast Asian writing systems, making this character significant for scholars studying epigraphy, historical linguistics, and the evolution of writing in the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11010 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter Ai |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011010 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc10 |