U+16D65 "饢单" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饢单
U+16D65 "饢单" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kirat Rai script, which was historically employed for writing the Kirati languages of Nepal and neighboring regions. This specific character represents the vowel sound "u" and is positioned above or attached to a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, functioning as a dependent vowel sign rather than an independent letter. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and accurate representation of the Kirat Rai script, which is part of the wider effort to encode minority and historical writing systems for modern computing use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D65 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Kirat Rai Vowel Sign U |
| Block | Kirat Rai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖵥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖵥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB5 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDD65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016D65 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udd65 |