U+1148C "𑒌" Tirhuta Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑒌
U+1148C "𑒌" Tirhuta Letter Ai is a glyph from the Tirhuta script, an abugida historically used to write the Maithili language, primarily in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. This specific character represents the independent vowel "Ai," a diphthong sound, and it was encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014 as part of a block that aims to preserve and digitally support the classical script. Its design features a distinctive curved stroke with a top loop, reflecting the calligraphic tradition of Tirhuta used in religious and literary manuscripts, and it plays a key role in correctly writing Maithili words and proper names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1148C |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Tirhuta Letter Ai |
| Block | Tirhuta |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑒌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑒌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x92 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001148C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc8c |