U+1118A "𑆊" Sharada Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑆊
U+1118A "𑆊" Sharada Letter Vocalic Rr is a glyph from the Sharada script, an ancient abugida historically used to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in parts of northern India and Central Asia. This particular character represents a vocalic form of the retroflex R sound, specifically the long vowel equivalent, and is employed in the transcription of sacred or classical texts to denote a syllable that functions as a vowel rather than a consonant. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that scholars and software can accurately represent and preserve this distinctive phonetic element of the script in digital formats, maintaining the historical and linguistic integrity of documents written in Sharada.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1118A |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDD8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001118A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udd8a |