U+11CB0 "𑲰" Marchen Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲰
U+11CB0 "𑲰" Marchen Vowel Sign Aa is a combining vowel sign used in the Marchen script, a historically significant abugida employed to write the Zhangzhung language in the ancient Shangshung kingdom of western Tibet. This specific character represents the long "aa" vowel sound and attaches to a consonant letter to modify its inherent vowel, functioning as a diacritical mark rather than an independent letter. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Marchen language, which is linked to the cultural and religious heritage of the Bön tradition and the early history of the Tibetan region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11CB0 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Vowel Sign Aa |
| 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDCB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011CB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udcb0 |