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 |