U+1132C "𑌬" Grantha Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑌬

U+1132C "𑌬" Grantha Letter Ba is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient abugida historically used in South India and Sri Lanka to write Sanskrit, Tamil, and other languages, primarily for religious and scholarly texts. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ba," corresponding to the equivalent letter in the Brahmic family of scripts from which Grantha derives. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard (specifically in the Grantha block added in version 7.0) allows for the accurate digital representation and preservation of historical manuscripts, inscriptions, and modern liturgical works that utilize this script.

General Properties

Code Point U+1132C
Version Added 7.0
Name Grantha Letter Ba
Block Grantha
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑌬
HTML Hex Encoding 𑌬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDF2C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001132C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udf2c

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 Consonant
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