U+111C9 "𑇉" Sharada Sandhi Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑇉
U+111C9 "𑇉" Sharada Sandhi Mark is a specialized punctuation mark used in the Sharada script, an abugida historically employed to write the Kashmiri and Sanskrit languages in the northwestern regions of South Asia. This character functions as a scribal or typographic sign to indicate the occurrence of sandhi, a linguistic process where two adjacent sounds or syllables merge or change at word boundaries according to specific phonetic rules. It is typically inserted between words or morphemes to mark the point of such euphonic conjunction, serving as an aid for scribes and readers in accurately interpreting the intended textual flow and pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+111C9 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Sharada Sandhi Mark |
| 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 0x87 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDDC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000111C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\uddc9 |