U+11F38 "饝几" Kawi Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饝几
U+11F38 "饝几" Kawi Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kawi script, an ancient writing system employed across much of Maritime Southeast Asia, including regions of modern-day Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, to write languages such as Old Javanese, Old Malay, and Balinese. This vowel sign specifically represents the short vowel sound /u/ and is attached to a consonant base character to modify its inherent vowel, as is typical of Brahmic abugida scripts. As part of the Kawi block encoded in Unicode 16.0, it preserves the orthographic features of historical manuscripts and inscriptions, enabling digital representation and scholarly study of texts that document the linguistic and cultural history of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11F38 |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Kawi Vowel Sign U |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011F38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udf38 |