U+119A5 "𑦥" Nandinagari Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦥
U+119A5 "𑦥" Nandinagari Letter Uu is a specific glyph in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in southern India to write Sanskrit and Kannada. This character represents the vowel "Uu", corresponding to the long [uː] sound, and it is part of the Nandinagari Unicode block added in version 12.0 in 2019 to support digital encoding of historical manuscripts and inscriptions. Its distinctive curved stroke and hovering oval shape help differentiate it from similar vowels in the script, aiding scholars and typographers in preserving and reproducing classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119A5 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Uu |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udda5 |