U+119A6 "𑦦" Nandinagari Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦦
U+119A6 "𑦦" Nandinagari Letter Vocalic R is a glyph from the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic abugida historically used to write Sanskrit and Kannada in southern India. This specific character represents the vocalic r sound, a syllabic vowel-like rhotic consonant that occurs in Sanskrit, serving as a distinct letter in the script's vowel inventory. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 12.0 in 2019, helping to digitally preserve this historical script for scholarly and cultural uses.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119A6 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Vocalic R |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udda6 |