U+11A9C "𑪜" Soyombo Mark Double Shad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+11A9C "𑪜" Soyombo Mark Double Shad is a rare diacritical mark used in the Soyombo script, an abugida historically employed to write Mongolian and Tibetan languages, primarily in Buddhist and ritual contexts. This specific symbol indicates a doubled or reinforced "shad," which is a punctuation mark in these scripts used to signify a longer pause or the end of a section of text, similar to a period or comma in Western writing. The double shad likely adds emphasis or denotes a major structural break within a manuscript, such as the conclusion of a significant textual division, though its precise usage is not fully standardized due to the script’s limited modern application. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient writing system for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑪜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑪜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0xAA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD806 0xDE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00011A9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud806\ude9c |
Unicode Properties