U+119AB "𑦫" Nandinagari Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦫
U+119AB "𑦫" Nandinagari Letter Ai is a character in the Nandinagari script, an abugida historically used in southern India for writing Sanskrit and occasionally other languages. This specific character represents the vowel sound "Ai", distinct from the short or long "A" sounds, and is written as a distinct glyph that modifies or combines with consonant signs to indicate the correct pronunciation in texts. Part of the Unicode standard's support for historic scripts, it helps preserve and digitally represent ancient manuscripts and inscriptions where Nandinagari was employed, particularly in religious and scholarly works from the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119AB |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Ai |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddab |