U+1118D "𑆍" Sharada Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑆍

U+1118D "𑆍" Sharada Letter E is a vowel used in the Sharada script, a historical writing system primarily employed in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, particularly in Kashmir, from around the 8th to the 20th century. This character represents the vowel sound "e" and is typically written as an independent letter when beginning a syllable, functioning as a distinct graphic element within the abugida. The Sharada script itself was widely used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri languages, appearing in religious manuscripts, inscriptions, and administrative records before being largely supplanted by other scripts. Thus, the Sharada Letter E preserves a specific phonetic and cultural tradition, contributing to the documentation and study of South Asian epigraphy and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+1118D
Version Added 6.1
Name Sharada Letter E
Block Sharada
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑆍
HTML Hex Encoding 𑆍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDD8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001118D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udd8d

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 Sharada
Script Extensions Sharada
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
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