U+11C00 "ð‘°€" Bhaiksuki Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð‘°€

U+11C00 "ð‘°€" Bhaiksuki Letter A is a glyph representing the first vowel letter 'a' in the Bhaiksuki script, a historical Brahmi-derived writing system that was primarily used in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent from around the 6th to 10th centuries CE to write Buddhist Sanskrit texts. This character is part of the Bhaiksuki Unicode block, added in version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard, and it functions as a syllabic base form in the script, often serving as the carrier for diacritic vowel marks. Its shape resembles an open, angular figure typical of Bhaiksuki calligraphy, making it a key component in preserving and digitally representing ancient manuscripts from this script.

General Properties

Code Point U+11C00
Version Added 9.0
Name Bhaiksuki Letter A
Block Bhaiksuki
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑰀
HTML Hex Encoding 𑰀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDC00
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011C00
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udc00

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 Alphabetic
Script Bhaiksuki
Script Extensions Bhaiksuki
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter