U+11397 "๐" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11397 "๐" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ca is a character used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically employed to write the Tulu language in the coastal region of Karnataka and Kerala, India. This script is closely related to other Southern Brahmic scripts, and the letter "Ca" represents the sound /tอกส/ as in the English word "church". Its incorporation into the Unicode Standard in 2024 was a significant milestone for digital preservation and revitalization of the Tulu language, enabling modern electronic communication, documentation, and text representation for this minority language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11397 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ca |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑎗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑎗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011397 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf97 |