U+11300 "𑌀" Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌀
U+11300 "𑌀" Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above is a diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, an ancient writing system historically employed in South India and Sri Lanka for writing Sanskrit and Tamil. This combining character is placed above a base consonant or vowel sign to denote a nasalization or a prenasalized stop, functioning similarly to the anusvara in other Brahmic scripts. It is encoded in the Unicode Grantha block, which was introduced to support digital representation of the script for scholarly and liturgical purposes, allowing precise encoding of textual nuances in manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11300 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above |
| Block | Grantha |
| 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 0x8C 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011300 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf00 |