U+11FE7 "𑿧" Tamil Salt Pan Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑿧
U+11FE7 "𑿧" Tamil Salt Pan Sign is a historical symbol used in the Tamil script to represent a salt pan, a shallow basin or area where seawater or brine is evaporated to produce salt. This specific character belongs to the Tamil Supplement Unicode block and is considered a sign or a symbol rather than a letter, reflecting the economic and agricultural significance of salt production in ancient and medieval Tamil regions such as present-day Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard, added in version 12.0 in 2019, helps preserve the orthographic record of this unique element of Tamil epigraphy and trade documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FE7 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Salt Pan 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 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udfe7 |
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 |