U+113C9 "" Tulu-Tigalari Au Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+113C9 "" Tulu-Tigalari Au Length Mark is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically employed to write the Tulu language in the southwestern region of India. This specific character serves as a vowel length marker, modifying the inherent vowel of a consonant base to indicate a long or extended pronunciation akin to the sound "au". Positioned as a superscript sign above the consonant character it modifies, it plays a crucial role in accurately representing phonetic distinctions in written Tulu, particularly in religious and literary texts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures digital preservation and proper rendering of this historic script in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+113C9 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Au Length Mark |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑏉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑏉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8F 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDFC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000113C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udfc9 |