U+113AE "𑎮" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Va Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+113AE "𑎮" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Va is a specific glyph within the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically used to write the Tulu language in the coastal region of Karnataka and Kerala, India. This character represents the consonant sound "va" and belongs to a recently encoded Unicode block added in version 16.0 (2024) to digitally preserve endangered Brahmic scripts. It is distinguished by its round forms and ligature-based structure, reflecting the script’s evolution from the Grantha and Kadamba writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+113AE
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Letter Va
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎮
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDFAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000113AE
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udfae

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
Script Tulu Tigalari
Script Extensions Tulu Tigalari
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
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