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

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