U+11729 "𑜩" Ahom Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11729 "𑜩" Ahom Vowel Sign Ai is a diacritic mark used in the Ahom script, which was historically employed to write the Ahom language, a now extinct Tai language once spoken in the northeastern region of India, particularly in present-day Assam. This specific sign, a vowel marker, represents the diphthong sound "ai" and is attached to a consonant base to modify its pronunciation in the syllabic writing system of Ahom. The character is part of the Ahom block of the Unicode Standard, included to support the digital preservation and study of this ancient script, which has seen renewed scholarly interest for its role in recording historical chronicles and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11729 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Ahom Vowel Sign Ai |
| Block | Ahom |
| 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 0x9C 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011729 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf29 |