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