U+1133D "𑌽" Grantha Sign Avagraha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌽
U+1133D "𑌽" Grantha Sign Avagraha is a diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, an ancient writing system of South India primarily employed for Sanskrit and Tamil texts. This sign indicates the avagraha, a punctuation or phonetic marker that denotes the elision of a vowel at the end of a word, often occurring when one word is joined to another in sandhi or euphonic combination. Its function is similar to the avagraha in Devanagari and other Brahmic scripts, serving to clarify the pronunciation and grammatical structure of written phrases. The character belongs to the Grantha block in Unicode and is essential for accurate representation of classical manuscripts and scholarly works in this historic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1133D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Sign Avagraha |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001133D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf3d |