U+11301 "𑌁" Grantha Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌁
U+11301 "𑌁" Grantha Sign Candrabindu 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 sign, which resembles a crescent moon (candra) with a dot (bindu) above it, indicates the nasalization of the vowel sound to which it is attached, modifying the pronunciation of the base character by adding a nasal quality. It is part of the Grantha block in Unicode, specifically designed for encoding classical texts and inscriptions, and plays a role in preserving the phonetic accuracy of ancient manuscripts and liturgical works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11301 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Sign Candrabindu |
| 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 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011301 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf01 |