U+11601 "𑘁" Modi Letter Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑘁
U+11601 "𑘁" Modi Letter Aa is a character from the Modi script, a writing system historically used for the Marathi language in the Indian subcontinent. It represents the vowel sound "ā" (a long "a" as in "father") and is part of a script that was commonly used for administrative and personal correspondence in the Maratha Empire before its gradual replacement by the Devanagari script. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Modi block, ensuring its digital preservation and use in modern computing environments for accurate representation and scholarly study of historical Marathi texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11601 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Modi Letter Aa |
| Block | Modi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑘁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑘁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x98 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDE01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011601 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\ude01 |