U+11039 "ð‘€¹" Brahmi Vowel Sign Bhattiprolu Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11039 "ð‘€¹" Brahmi Vowel Sign Bhattiprolu Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the ancient Brahmi script, specifically representing the long vowel "aa" in the variant form found in the Bhattiprolu inscriptions from present-day Andhra Pradesh, India. This character is encoded in the Brahmi block of Unicode and is visually represented as a curved stroke or hook that attaches to a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel to a long "a" sound. It plays a critical role in the accurate digital representation of early Indian epigraphic texts, aiding scholars in the study and preservation of one of the oldest writing systems used in South Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11039 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Vowel Sign Bhattiprolu Aa |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011039 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc39 |