U+11838 "ð‘ ¸" Dogra Sign Visarga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð‘ ¸

U+11838 "ð‘ ¸" Dogra Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Dogra script, a historical writing system once employed for the Dogri language in the Jammu region of northern India. This specific character represents the visarga, a phonetic element in several Indic scripts that indicates a voiceless breathy sound after a vowel, typically transliterated as a final "h" with a distinct aspiration. In the Dogra script, which evolved from the Takri script and was used primarily for administrative and literary purposes before falling into disuse, the Dogra Sign Visarga served as an essential orthographic component for accurately representing Sanskrit and Dogri phonology. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard ensures its digital preservation and supports scholarly efforts to study and revive the Dogra script.

General Properties

Code Point U+11838
Version Added 11.0
Name Dogra Sign Visarga
Block Dogra
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑠸
HTML Hex Encoding 𑠸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDC38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011838
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\udc38

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 Combining Mark
Script Dogra
Script Extensions Dogra
Indic Syllabic Category Visarga
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend