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 |