U+11308 "๐" Grantha Letter Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11308 "๐" Grantha Letter Ii is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient abugida historically used in South India and Sri Lanka to write Sanskrit, Tamil, and Manipravalam. This specific character represents the long vowel "Ii" (equivalent to the Sanskrit เค), and it is distinct from the short vowel "I" (U+11307) in both its graphical form and phonetic value, playing a role in accurately transcribing long vowel sounds in sacred and literary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11308 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Ii |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf08 |