U+111B8 "๐ธ" Sharada Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๐ธ
U+111B8 "๐ธ" Sharada Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Sharada script, an ancient writing system historically employed for the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. This vowel sign specifically modifies a consonant to represent the vocalic r sound, a syllabic vowel akin to the Sanskrit เค (แน), and is placed after the consonant character it affects, functioning as a dependent vowel marker rather than an independent letter. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the accurate digital representation and preservation of historical and religious manuscripts written in Sharada, supporting linguistic scholarship and cultural heritage initiatives.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111B8 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑆸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑆸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x86 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\uddb8 |