U+119AC "𑦬" Nandinagari Letter O Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑦬

U+119AC "𑦬" Nandinagari Letter O is a glyph representing the independent vowel O in the Nandinagari script, a historical Brahmic writing system primarily used in South India between the 7th and 19th centuries to write Sanskrit and occasionally Kannada or Marathi manuscripts. It is encoded in the Nandinagari block of the Unicode Standard, which was added in version 12.0 in 2019 to support the digitization of ancient texts and inscriptions. Visually, this character resembles a curved loop or open shape, distinct from the more common Devanagari O, and it appears as a standalone letter rather than a vowel sign attached to a consonant. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of premodern South Indian scribal traditions for modern digital use.

General Properties

Code Point U+119AC
Version Added 12.0
Name Nandinagari Letter O
Block Nandinagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑦬
HTML Hex Encoding 𑦬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDDAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000119AC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\uddac

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Nandinagari
Script Extensions Nandinagari
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter