U+11CA1 "𑲡" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲡
U+11CA1 "𑲡" Marchen Subjoined Letter Ma is a typographic variant used in the Marchen script, which was historically employed to write the Zhangzhung language in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This subjoined form of the letter "Ma" is designed to attach below the preceding base consonant, functioning as a vertical ligature to indicate the consonant cluster "Ma" within a syllable. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text processing systems can accurately represent and preserve the complex orthographic structure of Marchen manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11CA1 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Ma |
| 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDCA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011CA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udca1 |