U+119D1 "𑧑" Nandinagari Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑧑
U+119D1 "𑧑" Nandinagari Vowel Sign Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic script historically employed to write Sanskrit and other languages in parts of South India. This vowel sign modifies a consonant character by attaching to it and indicating the long "aa" vowel sound, as opposed to the inherent schwa vowel of the base consonant. It is part of the Unicode Standard's Nandinagari block, which was added in version 12.0 to support the encoding of this historical script for scholarly and digital preservation purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119D1 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Vowel Sign Aa |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑧑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑧑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA7 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDD1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddd1 |