U+1162A "𑘪" Modi Letter Va Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑘪

U+1162A "𑘪" Modi Letter Va is a character from the Modi script, a writing system historically used to write the Marathi language primarily in the state of Maharashtra, India, during the 17th to 20th centuries. This specific character represents the consonant sound "va" and is one of the basic letters in the Modi abugida, where each consonant carries an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritical marks. The Modi script, known for its cursive and rounded forms, was developed to facilitate quicker writing compared to the Devanagari script, often used for administrative and documentary purposes under the Maratha Empire. Today, the character U+1162A is part of the Unicode Standard, ensuring its digital preservation and enabling modern text processing and rendering for historical and linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point U+1162A
Version Added 7.0
Name Modi Letter Va
Block Modi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑘪
HTML Hex Encoding 𑘪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x98 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDE2A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001162A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\ude2a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Modi
Script Extensions Modi
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter