U+11FD5 "ð‘¿•" Tamil Sign Nel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘¿•
U+11FD5 "ð‘¿•" Tamil Sign Nel is a unique symbol used in the Tamil textual tradition, representing the word "nel" which means paddy or unhusked rice in the Tamil language. It belongs to the Tamil Supplement block of the Unicode standard and serves as an abbreviation or a sign, often found in historical manuscripts, inscriptions, or records related to agriculture, land measurement, or grain accounting. This character helps preserve the concise notation used in traditional Tamil documentation, where a single symbol could convey a common term associated with the region's agrarian heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FD5 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Sign Nel |
| Block | Tamil Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑿕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑿕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xBF 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udfd5 |
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 | Alphabetic |
| Script | Tamil |
| Script Extensions | Tamil |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |