U+11C85 "𑲅" Marchen Letter Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑲅

U+11C85 "𑲅" Marchen Letter Wa is a symbol from the historical Marchen script, which was used to write the Zhang-Zhung language in the ancient Tibetan region of Shangshung. This letter specifically represents the consonant sound "wa" and is part of a script that holds significant linguistic and cultural value for the study of pre-Buddhist Bon religion texts. The Marchen script, along with its letters like Wa, was encoded in Unicode to aid in the digital preservation and scholarly research of these historical writings.

General Properties

Code Point U+11C85
Version Added 9.0
Name Marchen Letter Wa
Block Marchen
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑲅
HTML Hex Encoding 𑲅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDC85
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011C85
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udc85

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 Marchen
Script Extensions Marchen
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
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