U+1116A "ð‘…ª" Mahajani Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð‘…ª

U+1116A "ð‘…ª" Mahajani Letter Ba is a specific glyph from the Mahajani script, a historical abugida used primarily in the mercantile and accounting contexts of northern India, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh regions, from roughly the 16th to the early 20th centuries. This character represents the consonant sound "ba" and belongs to a writing system that was known for its cursive, linear forms and lack of vowel signs, as vowels were often implied or left to context. The Mahajani script, now obsolete, was instrumental in recording financial transactions, land records, and trade ledgers, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as part of version 9.0 in 2016 helps preserve this important piece of commercial and cultural heritage for digital use and academic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+1116A
Version Added 7.0
Name Mahajani Letter Ba
Block Mahajani
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑅪
HTML Hex Encoding 𑅪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x85 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD6A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001116A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd6a

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 Consonant
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