U+11170 "ð‘…°" Mahajani Letter Sa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11170 "ð‘…°" Mahajani Letter Sa is a character used in the Mahajani script, an ancient writing system historically employed for mercantile and accounting purposes in parts of North India, particularly in the Punjab and Rajasthan regions. This script was traditionally used by traders and scribes to record transactions, manuscripts, and legal documents, with "Sa" representing a specific consonant sound. The Mahajani script is largely syllabic and has a cursive, linear appearance, making it distinct from more familiar scripts like Devanagari. Although no longer in common use, the character has been encoded in Unicode to preserve this historical writing system and facilitate academic research and digital documentation of its unique linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+11170
Version Added 7.0
Name Mahajani Letter Sa
Block Mahajani
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑅰
HTML Hex Encoding 𑅰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x85 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD70
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011170
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd70

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