U+11310 "𑌐" Grantha Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌐
U+11310 "𑌐" Grantha Letter Ai is a character used in the Grantha script, a classical South Indian writing system historically employed for writing Sanskrit and Manipravalam. It represents the independent vowel sound "ai," similar to the diphthong in the English word "eye," and is distinct from the vowel sign used to modify a consonant. This letter is part of the Unicode block for Grantha, encoded to support the digital preservation and scholarly use of this ancient script, which is particularly important for religious and academic texts from the Tamil Nadu and Kerala regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11310 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Ai |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011310 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf10 |