U+11043 "𑁃" Brahmi Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑁃
U+11043 "𑁃" Brahmi Vowel Sign Ai is a combining diacritical mark from the Brahmi script block, used to represent the long vowel sound "ai" in the ancient Brahmi writing system of South Asia. This character is a dependent vowel sign, meaning it attaches to a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, producing the "ai" sound. It was encoded in the Unicode Standard, version 6.0, in 2010, as part of efforts to digitally preserve historical scripts for scholarly and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11043 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Vowel Sign Ai |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011043 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc43 |