U+1133B "𑌻" Combining Bindu Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌻
U+1133B "𑌻" Combining Bindu Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, primarily for writing Sanskrit and classical texts in South India. This character, when placed beneath a base consonant or vowel, modifies its phonetic value by adding a nasalization or a subtle anusvara-like resonance, functioning similarly to a dot or point below the character to indicate a specific sound change. Its encoding in the Unicode standard allows for accurate digital representation and preservation of the Grantha script, facilitating scholarly work, linguistic research, and text rendering for historical and religious documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1133B |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Combining Bindu Below |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001133B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf3b |