U+11FDF "ð‘¿Ÿ" Tamil Sign Pon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘¿Ÿ
U+11FDF "ð‘¿Ÿ" Tamil Sign Pon is a historical monetary symbol used in the Tamil script, specifically representing a unit of gold weight or currency known as a "pon." This character is part of the Tamil Supplement block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support ancient and medieval Tamil inscriptions and documents that required distinct numeric and financial signs. The glyph depicts a stylized abbreviation or ligature, serving as a notation for measures of precious metal in classical Tamil economic and trade contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the accurate digital representation of historical Tamil manuscripts and stone inscriptions where such signs denote value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FDF |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Sign Pon |
| Block | Tamil Supplement |
| General Category | Currency Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑿟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑿟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xBF 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FDF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udfdf |
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 | Postfix Numeric |
| 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 |