U+11C9A "𑲚" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲚
U+11C9A "𑲚" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ta is a glyph used in the Marchen script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically employed to write the Zhangzhung language in the Tibetan cultural sphere, particularly in texts related to the Bon religion. This character represents a subjoined form of the consonant "Ta," meaning it appears as a diacritic-like ligature attached below a base consonant in a syllable block, rather than as an independent letter. Its encoded positioning in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital representations of Marchen texts maintain correct orthographic stacking, reflecting the script's abugida nature where vowel and consonant modifiers are integral to word formation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C9A |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Ta |
| Block | Marchen |
| 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 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc9a |