U+1135D "𑍝" Grantha Sign Pluta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑍝
U+1135D "𑍝" Grantha Sign Pluta is a diacritical mark used in the Grantha script, which is historically employed for writing Sanskrit and classical Manipravalam in South India. This sign specifically indicates a pluta or prolonged vowel, where the vowel sound is held for an extended duration, typically three morae in length, as per ancient grammatical rules. Placed above or attached to a base character, it modifies the pronunciation of the vowel in religious, scholarly, or prosodic texts, distinguishing it from standard short or long vowels. The Grantha script itself is a Brahmic abugida that predates modern South Indian scripts like Tamil and Malayalam, and this character preserves a key phonetic nuance from Sanskritic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1135D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Sign Pluta |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑍝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑍝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8D 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001135D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf5d |