U+16D68 "𖵨" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖵨
U+16D68 "𖵨" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Ai is a diacritical mark used in the Kirat Rai script, which is employed for writing the languages of the Kirat Rai communities in Nepal and parts of India. This vowel sign represents the phoneme /ai/ and is attached to a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound. It is part of the Kirat Rai block in Unicode, which was added in version 16.0 in 2024 to support the encoding of this historically significant and culturally important script. The character typically appears as a combining mark placed above or to the left of a consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D68 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Ai |
| Block | Kirat Rai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𖵧" U+16D67 Kirat Rai Vowel Sign E "𖵧" U+16D67 Kirat Rai Vowel Sign E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖵨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖵨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB5 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDD68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016D68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udd68 |