U+11070 "𑁰" Brahmi Sign Old Tamil Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑁰
U+11070 "𑁰" Brahmi Sign Old Tamil Virama is a control character used in the Brahmi script, specifically for representing the ancient Tamil writing system. It functions as a virama, a diacritical mark that suppresses the inherent vowel of a consonant, thereby creating a pure consonant or a conjunct consonant form. This character is part of the Brahmi block and was added to the Unicode Standard to support the accurate digital representation and scholarly study of historical Tamil inscriptions and texts, distinguishing Old Tamil orthographic practices from later or related scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11070 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Sign Old Tamil Virama |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑁰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑁰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x81 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011070 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc70 |