U+1116E "ð‘…®" Mahajani Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1116E "ð‘…®" Mahajani Letter La is a glyph representing a specific consonant sound in the Mahajani script, a historical writing system used primarily for commercial and accounting purposes in North India approximately from the 13th to the 20th century. This script was known for its cursive and often ligature heavy nature, making it quite distinct from more formal scripts like Devanagari. The letter "La" corresponds to the alveolar lateral approximant sound found in many Indian languages, and in the context of Mahajani, it would have been used to transcribe details in mercantile ledgers and administrative documents. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars and digital archivists can accurately represent and preserve this important historical writing system in modern electronic texts.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑅮
HTML Hex Encoding 𑅮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x85 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD6E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001116E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd6e

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