U+1118E "𑆎" Sharada Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑆎
U+1118E "𑆎" Sharada Letter Ai is a glyph from the Sharada script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the Kashmir and surrounding regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages. This specific character represents the vowel sound "ai," which is a diphthong in the language's phonetic inventory, and it functions as an independent vowel sign when not attached to a consonant. In the Sharada script's modern digital encoding, it allows for the accurate representation of classical texts and contemporary usage, preserving a crucial part of South Asian epigraphic and literary heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1118E |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Letter Ai |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDD8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001118E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udd8e |