U+11344 "𑍄" Grantha Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑍄
U+11344 "𑍄" Grantha Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a combining diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, a historical South Indian writing system primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and classical Tamil texts. This vowel sign represents the vocalic "rr" sound, a syllabic variant of the retroflex r, and is placed after a consonant to modify its inherent vowel, indicating the pronunciation of a long, drawn-out r-like vocalic element. It is part of the Grantha block in Unicode and is distinct from similar vowel signs in other Brahmic scripts, reflecting the precise phonological needs of the scholarly and liturgical traditions that utilized Grantha.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11344 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑍄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑍄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8D 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011344 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf44 |