U+1102F "𑀯" Brahmi Letter Va Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑀯

U+1102F "𑀯" Brahmi Letter Va is a glyph from the ancient Brahmi script, representing the consonant "va." This script, which dates to the 3rd century BCE, is one of the earliest writing systems used in South Asia and is the ancestor of many modern scripts, including Devanagari, Tamil, and Bengali. The letter "𑀯" is found in the Brahmi block of the Unicode standard, which was included to support the scholarly study, digital preservation, and typographic representation of historical inscriptions and texts from the Indian subcontinent. Its encoding allows researchers and enthusiasts to accurately reproduce ancient manuscripts and epigraphs in digital form, facilitating access to the linguistic and cultural heritage of early South Asian civilizations.

General Properties

Code Point U+1102F
Version Added 6.0
Name Brahmi Letter Va
Block Brahmi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑀯
HTML Hex Encoding 𑀯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC2F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001102F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc2f

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 Consonant
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