U+16D6A "𖵪" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+16D6A "𖵪" Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Au is a diacritical mark used in the Kirat Rai script, which was historically employed to write the Kirati languages of eastern Nepal and is now part of the modern Unicode standard to support digital encoding of these languages. This specific vowel sign represents the sound "au" and is written as a combining mark that attaches to a consonant base character to modify its vowel pronunciation, forming a syllabic unit within the script's orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the linguistic heritage of the Kirat Rai community by enabling accurate digital representation and text processing for documentation, education, and communication purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16D6A |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Kirat Rai Vowel Sign Au |
| Block | Kirat Rai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "𖵩" U+16D69 Kirat Rai Vowel Sign O "𖵧" U+16D67 Kirat Rai Vowel Sign E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖵪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖵪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xB5 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81B 0xDD6A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016D6A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81b\udd6a |