U+11C2A "𑰪" Bhaiksuki Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11C2A "𑰪" Bhaiksuki Letter Va is a letter from the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient abugida primarily used in Buddhist manuscripts from the 7th to 10th centuries in what is now northern India, Nepal, and Tibet. This specific character represents the consonant "va" and is part of the Bhaiksuki Unicode block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0. The letter is typically used for writing liturgical texts, especially those related to Vajrayana Buddhism, and its shape features a distinctive curved form with a horizontal top bar, characteristic of the Bhaiksuki script's calligraphic style.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C2A |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bhaiksuki Letter Va |
| Block | Bhaiksuki |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑰪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑰪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc2a |