U+1193B "𑤻" Dives Akuru Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑤻
U+1193B "𑤻" Dives Akuru Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Dives Akuru script, an ancient Brahmic abugida historically employed to write the Maldivian language on the island of Dives. This sign represents a nasalized sound, similar to the anusvara found in other Brahmi-derived scripts, indicating a homorganic nasal following a vowel or consonant within a syllable. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Dives Akuru block, which was added to support the digital representation of this endangered script, aiding in the preservation and study of historical inscriptions and manuscripts from the Maldives region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1193B |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Dives Akuru Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Dives Akuru |
| 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 0xA4 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDD3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001193B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udd3b |