U+11EF4 "𑻴" Makasar Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑻴
U+11EF4 "𑻴" Makasar Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Makasar script, a historical writing system from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that was traditionally used to write the Makassarese language on palm-leaf manuscripts. This vowel sign attaches to a base consonant character to represent the sound of the vowel "u" and modifies the inherent vowel of that consonant, thereby enabling accurate phonetic transcription. As part of the Makasar block added to Unicode in version 11.0, it contributes to the digital preservation of a script that saw a revival of scholarly and cultural interest in the 21st century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11EF4 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Makasar Vowel Sign U |
| Block | Makasar |
| 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 0xBB 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDEF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011EF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udef4 |