U+1135E "𑍞" Grantha Letter Vedic Anusvara Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑍞

U+1135E "𑍞" Grantha Letter Vedic Anusvara is a special diacritic mark used in the Grantha script, which historically was employed in South India to write Sanskrit and related languages. It represents the Vedic anusvara, a nasalization symbol that appears in certain Vedic texts to indicate a specific phonetic nuance or prosodic feature, distinct from the standard anusvara used in later Sanskrit. This character is part of the Grantha block and is typically placed above or attached to a base consonant to modify its sound, aiding in the accurate recitation and preservation of ancient Vedic chants and mantras.

General Properties

Code Point U+1135E
Version Added 7.0
Name Grantha Letter Vedic Anusvara
Block Grantha
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑍞
HTML Hex Encoding 𑍞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8D 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDF5E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001135E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udf5e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara Start
Script Grantha
Script Extensions Grantha
Indic Syllabic Category Bindu
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter