U+11041 "𑁁" Brahmi Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑁁
U+11041 "𑁁" Brahmi Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a diacritical mark used in the ancient Brahmi script to represent a vocalic form of the consonant "L," specifically a long syllabic lateral approximant sound. This character belongs to the Brahmi block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the historical script used across South Asia to write various Prakrit and Sanskrit texts from around the 3rd century BCE onward. The sign appears as a modification to a consonant character, altering its pronunciation to include a prolonged vocalic quality, and it is part of a larger set of Brahmi vowel signs that allowed for precise phonetic representation in ancient inscriptions and manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11041 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| 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 0x81 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011041 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc41 |