U+112A0 "𑊠" Multani Letter Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+112A0 "𑊠" Multani Letter Ma is a glyph representing the consonant 'ma' in the Multani script, a historical writing system used primarily for the Saraiki language in the Punjab region of present-day Pakistan and India. This letter is part of the Multani block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to encode the script that was traditionally employed for business and religious texts before being largely supplanted by the Perso-Arabic script. The character itself serves as a crucial element for accurately representing the phonetic sounds of the language in digital text, ensuring that the cultural and linguistic heritage associated with the discontinued script is preserved for modern communication and research.

General Properties

Code Point U+112A0
Version Added 8.0
Name Multani Letter Ma
Block Multani
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑊠
HTML Hex Encoding 𑊠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8A 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDEA0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000112A0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udea0

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 Multani
Script Extensions Multani
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
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