U+11636 "๐‘˜ถ" Modi Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐‘˜ถ

U+11636 "๐‘˜ถ" Modi Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a diacritical mark used in the Modi script, an abugida historically employed primarily to write the Marathi language in western India from the 17th to the mid-20th century. This specific character represents a vocalic "rr" sound, functioning as a vowel sign that modifies a consonant to include this distinct sonorant vowel, which is a unique phonetic feature often transcribed as "แน" or similar in Romanization. Unlike many vowel signs found in other Indic scripts, the Modi Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a relatively rare and specialized character, reflecting the script’s adaptation of the Brahmic family of writing systems to capture the phonological nuances of Marathi, particularly in classical literary and administrative contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text processing can accurately represent historical manuscripts and scholarly works preserving this cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+11636
Version Added 7.0
Name Modi Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr
Block Modi
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑘶
HTML Hex Encoding 𑘶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x98 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDE36
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011636
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\ude36

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Modi
Script Extensions Modi
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend