U+113C8 "" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+113C8 "" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Au is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script to represent the long vowel sound "au" as a modifier attached to a consonant base. This character was added as part of the Unicode Standard's support for historical and modern Tulu language texts, particularly those written in the Tigalari alphabet, which has been traditionally used for writing Tulu and occasionally Sanskrit along the coast of Karnataka, India. As a vowel sign, it appears above or adjacent to the consonant character it modifies, altering the inherent vowel sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+113C8 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Au |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "" U+113C2 Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Ee "" U+113C9 Tulu-Tigalari Au Length Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑏈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑏈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8F 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDFC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000113C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udfc8 |