U+11F01 "𑼁" Kawi Sign Anusvara Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑼁

U+11F01 "𑼁" Kawi Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Kawi script, an ancient writing system from Southeast Asia historically employed to write languages such as Old Javanese, Balinese, and Sanskrit. This character represents the anusvara, a phonetic marker that indicates nasalization of a preceding vowel or, more specifically, a homorganic nasal sound (a nasal consonant that matches the place of articulation of a following consonant). In the Kawi script, it typically appears as a dot or small circle above or beside a syllable, modifying its pronunciation in a manner similar to the anusvara found in other Brahmic scripts like Devanagari. The addition of this sign to a base character creates a distinct nasalized syllable, playing a crucial role in accurately representing the phonological and orthographic conventions of texts inscribed or written in the Kawi tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+11F01
Version Added 15.0
Name Kawi Sign Anusvara
Block Kawi
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 0xBC 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDF01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011F01
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udf01

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Kawi
Script Extensions Kawi
Indic Syllabic Category Bindu
Indic Positional Category Top
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend