U+11A97 "𑪗" Soyombo Sign Visarga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑪗

U+11A97 "𑪗" Soyombo Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used within the Soyombo script, an abugida historically employed to write Mongolian and Tibetan languages, most famously in the Soyombo symbol of Mongolian independence. This specific character represents a visarga, a phonetic element in Sanskrit and related languages that indicates a voiceless breathy sound, typically transliterated as "ḥ" or an aspirated h-like release after a vowel. In the Soyombo script, it functions as a modifier attached to syllables, serving to accurately notate Sanskrit Buddhist texts or Mongolian transliterations of them, thereby preserving the precise pronunciation required for liturgical and scholarly traditions. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this rare script for digital records and linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point U+11A97
Version Added 10.0
Name Soyombo Sign Visarga
Block Soyombo
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 0xAA 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDE97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011A97
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\ude97

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 Combining Mark
Script Soyombo
Script Extensions Soyombo
Indic Syllabic Category Visarga
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend