U+11600 "𑘀" Modi Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑘀
U+11600 "𑘀" Modi Letter A is the first letter of the Modi script, a cursive alphabet historically used to write the Marathi language in western India, primarily for administrative and commercial documents from the 17th to the early 20th century. This character represents the vowel sound /a/, akin to the "a" in "about," and serves as the foundational base for modifying other vowels in the script through diacritical marks. Although the Modi script is largely obsolete today, having been replaced by the Devanagari script for writing Marathi, this Unicode encoding helps preserve it for digital archiving and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11600 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Modi Letter A |
| Block | Modi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑘀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑘀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x98 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011600 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\ude00 |