U+11081 "𑂁" Kaithi Sign Anusvara Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑂁

U+11081 "𑂁" Kaithi Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Kaithi script, historically employed for writing languages such as Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Urdu in northern India. This sign represents a nasalization of the preceding vowel or indicates a homorganic nasal consonant before a following consonant, similar to the anusvara in other Brahmic scripts. It is written as a dot above the character it modifies, and in Unicode it is classified as a nonspacing mark, meaning it combines with a base letter without taking up additional horizontal space. The Kaithi script itself is encoded in the Unicode Standard from U+11080 to U+110CF, and this specific character plays a crucial role in accurately representing nasalized sounds in the orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+11081
Version Added 5.2
Name Kaithi Sign Anusvara
Block Kaithi
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 0x82 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC81
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011081
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc81

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Kaithi
Script Extensions Kaithi
Indic Syllabic Category Bindu
Indic Positional Category Top
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend