U+11150 "𑅐" Mahajani Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑅐

U+11150 "𑅐" Mahajani Letter A is a character from the Mahajani script, which was historically used for writing the Marwari, Hindi, and Punjabi languages in parts of North India, particularly for mercantile and accounting purposes. This specific character represents the vowel sound "a" as found in the word "about" and is the first letter of the Mahajani abugida, functioning as an inherent vowel carrier in the script. The character belongs to the Mahajani block, encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, and is visually distinct with a simple, rounded form typical of the script's cursive style. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this historical writing system for academic and cultural purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+11150
Version Added 7.0
Name Mahajani Letter A
Block Mahajani
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑅐
HTML Hex Encoding 𑅐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x85 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD50
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011150
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd50

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 Mahajani
Script Extensions Mahajani
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel
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