U+11357 "𑍗" Grantha Au Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑍗
U+11357 "𑍗" Grantha Au Length Mark is a diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, an ancient writing system of South India primarily employed for writing Sanskrit and classical Tamil texts. This specific mark functions as a vowel length indicator, modifying the vowel 'au' to denote a longer or more sustained pronunciation, effectively serving as a graphical extension to the base Grantha character. It belongs to the Grantha block within Unicode and is encoded for use in historical and liturgical documents where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11357 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Au Length Mark |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011357 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf57 |