U+193B "᤻" Limbu Sign Sa-I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+193B "᤻" Limbu Sign Sa-I is a combining mark used in the Limbu script, which is traditionally employed to write the Limbu language of Nepal, Bhutan, and northeastern India. This sign serves a specific orthographic purpose, indicating the vowel sound "sa-i" or modifying the pronunciation of a base consonant, and it is part of a complex system where vowels are represented as diacritical marks attached to consonant characters. Represented as a short horizontal stroke, it helps maintain the distinct phonetic and grammatical structure of the Limbu language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+193B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Limbu Sign Sa-I |
| Block | Limbu |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᤻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᤻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA4 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x193B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000193B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u193b |