U+111C6 "𑇆" Sharada Double Danda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑇆
U+111C6 "𑇆" Sharada Double Danda is a punctuation mark used in the Sharada script, which historically served to write the Sanskrit and Kashmiri languages primarily in the Kashmir region. This symbol functions as a sentence terminator, specifically indicating the end of a verse or a major textual section within a manuscript, analogous to the double danda in other Brahmi-derived scripts. It appears as two vertical strokes side by side and is encoded in the Unicode standard in the Sharada block, which was introduced to support the digital representation of this ancient script for scholarly and liturgical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111C6 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sharada Double Danda |
| Block | Sharada |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑇆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑇆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x87 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\uddc6 |