U+11072 "𑁲" Brahmi Letter Old Tamil Short O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑁲
U+11072 "𑁲" Brahmi Letter Old Tamil Short O is a glyph belonging to the Brahmi script block, specifically representing a short vowel sound in the Old Tamil language. This character is part of the Brahmi abugida, an ancient writing system from which many modern South Asian and Southeast Asian scripts derive. Its primary use is in scholarly texts and digital reconstructions of early Tamil inscriptions, where it denotes a distinct phoneme that differs from the longer counterpart "Ō" in the Brahmi script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11072 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter Old Tamil Short O |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑁲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑁲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x81 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011072 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc72 |