U+11330 "𑌰" Grantha Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌰
U+11330 "𑌰" Grantha Letter Ra is a character from the Grantha script, a historic writing system primarily used to write Sanskrit in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This particular character represents the consonant sound "ra" and is one of the fundamental letters of the Grantha alphabet, facilitating the transcription of Sanskrit texts and Dravidian languages before the widespread adoption of modern scripts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize ancient manuscripts, religious texts, and scholarly works for contemporary linguistic and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11330 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Ra |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011330 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf30 |