U+11A0A "𑨊" Zanabazar Square Vowel Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑨊
U+11A0A "𑨊" Zanabazar Square Vowel Length Mark is a combining diacritical mark used in the Zanabazar Square script, an abugida historically employed to write Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Mongolian languages. It functions to indicate that a preceding vowel should be pronounced with an extended or long duration, aligning with comparative vowel length distinctions found in these languages. Visually, the mark appears as a small hook or curl positioned above the consonant or vowel base it modifies, and it is found in the Zanabazar Square block of the Unicode standard originally encoded in version 10.0. This character plays a crucial role in accurately representing phonetic length in texts that require precise transliteration or liturgical reading.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11A0A |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Zanabazar Square Vowel Length Mark |
| Block | Zanabazar Square |
| 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 0xA8 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDE0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011A0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\ude0a |