U+1193E "𑤾" Dives Akuru Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑤾
U+1193E "𑤾" Dives Akuru Virama is a combining mark used in the Dives Akuru script, an ancient writing system historically employed in the Maldives islands to write the Dhivehi language. This virama functions as a vowel killer, canceling the inherent vowel of a consonant character and indicating a pure consonant or a conjunct formation. The character is visually represented as a small, raised or attached diacritic sign, and it is encoded in the Unicode Dives Akuru block to support modern digital representation and preservation of this historic script for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1193E |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Dives Akuru Virama |
| Block | Dives Akuru |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑤾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑤾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA4 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDD3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001193E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udd3e |