U+113BF "𑎿" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑎿
U+113BF "𑎿" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically employed to write the Tulu language in southern India. This combining character is placed above or attached to a consonant to indicate the presence of a vocalic L sound, a rare syllabic vowel where the letter L functions as the nucleus of a syllable. As part of the newly encoded Tulu-Tigalari block in Unicode, it represents a crucial feature for preserving and digitally representing the phonetic nuances of the Tulu language, which has a rich literary and oral tradition in the coastal region of Karnataka.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+113BF |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDFBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000113BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udfbf |