U+11C3D "ð‘°½" Bhaiksuki Sign Anusvara Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð‘°½

U+11C3D "ð‘°½" Bhaiksuki Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the historical Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system primarily employed to write the Sanskrit language in manuscripts from the Himalayan region. This sign represents a homorganic nasal sound, typically occurring after a vowel, where it indicates that the following consonant should be pronounced with a nasal resonance at the same place of articulation. It appears as a dot or small circle placed above or near the character it modifies, functioning similarly to the anusvara found in other Indic scripts such as Devanagari. This character is part of the Bhaiksuki Unicode block, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitally encode the script’s unique orthographic conventions.

General Properties

Code Point U+11C3D
Version Added 9.0
Name Bhaiksuki Sign Anusvara
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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDC3D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011C3D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udc3d

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 Bindu
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