U+113BD "𑎽" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑎽

U+113BD "𑎽" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, which is historically employed to write the Tulu and Sanskrit languages in the southwestern regions of India. This specific vowel sign represents the vocalic R sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in many Dravidian and Indic phonetic systems. It is placed after a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, producing a distinct syllabic pronunciation. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally encode the unique orthographic features of the Tulu-Tigalari script, supporting modern computational use for texts and scholarly work related to these linguistic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point U+113BD
Version Added 16.0
Name Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic R
Block Tulu-Tigalari
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑎽
HTML Hex Encoding 𑎽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDFBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000113BD
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udfbd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Tulu Tigalari
Script Extensions Tulu Tigalari
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend