U+1130C "𑌌" Grantha Letter Vocalic L Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑌌

U+1130C "𑌌" Grantha Letter Vocalic L is a rarely used vowel character from the Grantha script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically employed in South India and Sri Lanka for writing Sanskrit and classical texts. This specific glyph represents a vocalic form of the consonant "L," producing a syllable-like sound similar to a short "l" vowel, which appears in Sanskrit as a syllabic consonant in certain grammatical contexts. It is part of the Grantha block in Unicode, which was added to support the accurate digital representation of traditional liturgical and scholarly manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1130C
Version Added 7.0
Name Grantha Letter Vocalic L
Block Grantha
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑌌
HTML Hex Encoding 𑌌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDF0C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001130C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udf0c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara
Script Grantha
Script Extensions Grantha
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter