U+1940 "᥀" Limbu Sign Loo Unicode Character

U+1940 "᥀" Limbu Sign Loo is a punctuation mark used in the Limbu script of Nepal and northeastern India, functioning specifically as an exclamation or attention‑getting sign similar to a modern day call‑out symbol. Historically, it appears in traditional Limbu texts to denote an interjection or a command, often emphasizing a strong vocal expression such as a shout or a call. Despite its limited use outside specialist linguistic and cultural contexts, the character remains an essential part of written Limbu, preserving a unique tonal and rhetorical nuance within the script’s punctuation set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1940
Version Added	4.0
Name	Limbu Sign Loo
Block	Limbu
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	᥀
HTML Hex Encoding	᥀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xA5 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1940
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001940
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1940

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Limbu
Script Extensions	Limbu
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other