U+11801 "𑠁" Dogra Letter Aa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑠁

U+11801 "𑠁" Dogra Letter Aa is a glyph from the Dogra script, an abugida historically used to write the Dogri language in the northern Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir. This specific character represents the long vowel sound "aa" and is part of the Dogra block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2018 to preserve and digitally encode this endangered script. Its shape is a distinctive cursive form, reflecting the elegant calligraphic tradition of the Dogra script, and its inclusion in Unicode supports modern digital documentation, text processing, and revitalization efforts for the Dogri language and its cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+11801
Version Added 11.0
Name Dogra Letter Aa
Block Dogra
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑠁
HTML Hex Encoding 𑠁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDC01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011801
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\udc01

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 Dogra
Script Extensions Dogra
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
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