U+1612B "ð–„«" Gurung Khema Consonant Sign Medial Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–„«
U+1612B "ð–„«" Gurung Khema Consonant Sign Medial Va is a diacritical mark used in the Gurung Khema script to indicate a medial 'va' sound when attached to a base consonant, effectively modifying the pronunciation of a syllable. This character belongs to the Gurung Khema block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2022 to support the written representation of the Gurung language spoken in Nepal. As a combining mark, it appears after a consonant character in text processing, creating a ligature-like effect that changes the syllable from a plain consonant to a consonant cluster featuring a 'va' glide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1612B |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Gurung Khema Consonant Sign Medial Va |
| Block | Gurung Khema |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖄫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖄫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0x84 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD818 0xDD2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001612B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud818\udd2b |