U+1172B "𑜫" Ahom Sign Killer Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑜫
U+1172B "𑜫" Ahom Sign Killer is a diacritical mark used in the Ahom script, an abugida historically employed to write the Ahom language of Northeast India and Assam. Its primary function is to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant, similar to a virama or halant in other Brahmic scripts, thereby creating a pure consonant without any following vowel sound. This sign plays a crucial role in the accurate phonetic representation of the Ahom language, enabling the construction of consonant clusters and the appropriate spelling of words within this ancient writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1172B |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Ahom Sign Killer |
| Block | Ahom |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑜫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑜫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9C 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001172B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf2b |