U+1130B "𑌋" Grantha Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌋
U+1130B "𑌋" Grantha Letter Vocalic R is a specific glyph from the Grantha script, a historical abugida primarily used in South India and Sri Lanka for writing Sanskrit and classical texts. This character represents the vocalic R sound, a syllabic vowel-like consonant that functions as a vowel in phonetic contexts, typical of ancient and Vedic Sanskrit phonology. It appears in scholarly and religious manuscripts, contributing to the accurate transcription of sacred verses and linguistic studies of Brahmic writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1130B |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Vocalic R |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001130B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf0b |