U+119AD "𑦭" Nandinagari Letter Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑦭
U+119AD "𑦭" Nandinagari Letter Au is a specific glyph from the Nandinagari script, an ancient and historical Brahmic writing system primarily used to write Sanskrit and Kannada in southern India. This character represents the independent vowel sound "au," which is the equivalent of the diphthong /au/ in South Asian languages. Part of the Nandinagari Unicode block, it was added in version 12.0 of the Unicode Standard to support the digital encoding of texts from medieval inscriptions and manuscripts. Visually, it appears as a cursive glyph with a distinctive hooked shape, differing from the more common Devanagari script's representation of the same vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119AD |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Letter Au |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑦭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑦭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA6 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddad |