U+119D5 "𑧕" Nandinagari Vowel Sign Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+119D5 "𑧕" Nandinagari Vowel Sign Uu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Nandinagari script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically employed to write Sanskrit and other languages in parts of South India. This vowel sign represents the long "u" vowel sound and is placed to the right of a consonant character, modifying its inherent vowel to produce the sound "ū". The Nandinagari block was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 with version 14.0, enabling digital preservation and scholarly use of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+119D5 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Nandinagari Vowel Sign Uu |
| Block | Nandinagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑧕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑧕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA7 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDDD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000119D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\uddd5 |