U+11C8A "𑲊" Marchen Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲊
U+11C8A "𑲊" Marchen Letter Ra is a symbol from the Marchen script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the Himalayan region to write the Zhangzhung language, which was associated with the pre-Buddhist Zhangzhung kingdom of western Tibet. This specific character represents the consonant sound equivalent to "ra" in that script. It falls within the Marchen Unicode block and is categorized as an other letter, serving as a phonetic component in the creation of written text for the now largely extinct Zhangzhung language, with its usage primarily preserved in scholarly and historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C8A |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Letter Ra |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc8a |