U+113B7 "𑎷" Tulu-Tigalari Sign Avagraha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑎷

U+113B7 "𑎷" Tulu-Tigalari Sign Avagraha is a diacritical mark used in the historical Tulu-Tigalari script, primarily employed for writing the Tulu language in southern India. This sign functions as an avagraha, which is a punctuation symbol in several Brahmic scripts that indicates the elision of a word-initial vowel, often resulting from sandhi or euphonic fusion in Sanskrit-derived or Dravidian contexts. It appears as a small, curved mark typically placed above the line of text to signal this phonetic omission, distinguishing it from similar markers in other scripts like Devanagari.

General Properties

Code Point U+113B7
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Sign Avagraha
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎷
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDFB7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000113B7
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udfb7

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 Ideographic
Script Tulu Tigalari
Script Extensions Tulu Tigalari
Indic Syllabic Category Avagraha
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