U+11C88 "𑲈" Marchen Letter -A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲈
U+11C88 "𑲈" Marchen Letter -A is a script character from the Marchen alphabet, which was historically used to write the Zhangzhung language in the ancient kingdom of Zhangzhung located in western Tibet. This particular character represents the vowel sound "a" and is part of a larger set of Marchen letters that were employed in religious and historical texts, particularly within the Bon tradition. The Marchen script is structurally related to other Brahmic scripts and features distinctive glyphic forms, with this letter serving as a fundamental building block for constructing syllables in the written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C88 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Letter -A |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc88 |