U+11F48 "𑽈" Kawi Punctuation Space Filler Unicode Character

U+11F48 "𑽈" Kawi Punctuation Space Filler is a specialized glyph from the Kawi script, an ancient Brahmic writing system used historically across maritime Southeast Asia, particularly in inscriptions from Java, Bali, and Sumatra. This character serves as a visual space-filling punctuation mark, employed to adjust text alignment or fill gaps between words in a line of Kawi script, rather than indicating a pause or grammatical separation like a modern space or comma. It is part of a broader set of scribal tools that allowed calligraphers and scribes to maintain consistent block justification in palm-leaf manuscripts or stone carvings, ensuring each line ended neatly without large empty gaps.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11F48
Version Added	15.0
Name	Kawi Punctuation Space Filler
Block	Kawi
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𑽈
HTML Hex Encoding	𑽈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x91 0xBD 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD807 0xDF48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011F48
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud807\udf48

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Kawi
Script Extensions	Kawi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other