U+1108A "ð‘‚Š" Kaithi Letter Ai Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1108A "ð‘‚Š" Kaithi Letter Ai is a glyph from the Kaithi script, a historical writing system used primarily in North India for languages like Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi. This specific character represents the vowel sound "ai," similar to the English diphthong in the word "pie." It belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and was encoded in Unicode as part of the Kaithi block to aid in the digital preservation and rendering of historical texts. The character's design features a distinctive curved shape with a top horizontal bar, typical of the Kaithi script's visual style, and it serves as an important component for accurately representing the phonology of the languages that employed this writing system in the medieval and early modern periods.

General Properties

Code Point U+1108A
Version Added 5.2
Name Kaithi Letter Ai
Block Kaithi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑂊
HTML Hex Encoding 𑂊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x82 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001108A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc8a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Kaithi
Script Extensions Kaithi
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter