U+1138E "" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1138E "" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ai is a distinct vowel character used within the Tulu-Tigalari script, which was historically employed to write the Tulu language primarily in coastal Karnataka, India, as well as for Sanskrit texts. This specific character represents the vowel sound "ai", a common diphthong in several Dravidian languages, and its addition to the Unicode Standard in version 16.0 helps preserve and digitally support a script that has seen a resurgence of interest among linguists and heritage communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1138E |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ai |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "" U+1138B Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ee "" U+113C2 Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Ee |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑎎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑎎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001138E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf8e |