U+11C3B "𑰻" Bhaiksuki Vowel Sign Au Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11C3B "𑰻" Bhaiksuki Vowel Sign Au is a combining diacritical mark used in the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system historically employed to write Sanskrit and possibly other languages in regions of present-day India and Nepal. This vowel sign represents the diphthong "au" and is attached to the base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound, following the standard abugida structure of the script. The Bhaiksuki script, which dates to around the 11th to 12th centuries, is closely related to other northeast Indian scripts, and this particular vowel sign is encoded in Unicode's Bhaiksuki block, which was added to the standard in version 9.0 in 2016 to support scholarly and digital preservation of this historic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11C3B
Version Added	9.0
Name	Bhaiksuki Vowel Sign Au
Block	Bhaiksuki
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 0xB0 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD807 0xDC3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011C3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud807\udc3b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Bhaiksuki
Script Extensions	Bhaiksuki
Indic Syllabic Category	Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category	Top
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Other Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend