U+11FE6 "𑿦" Tamil Land Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑿦
U+11FE6 "𑿦" Tamil Land Sign is a specialized symbol used in historical Tamil land grant inscriptions and documents to represent measurements of land area, often indicating a specific unit or boundary marker. It belongs to the Tamil Supplement block, which encodes various auxiliary signs and numerals from medieval Tamil texts. This character was added to Unicode in 2018 as part of version 11.0 to support the accurate digital representation of ancient land administration records. Its inclusion helps preserve and make accessible the textual evidence of pre-modern land tenure systems in Tamil-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FE6 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Land Sign |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udfe6 |
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 |