U+1CC71 "饻北" Up-Facing Snake Head with Open Mouth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

饻北

U+1CC71 "饻北" Up-Facing Snake Head with Open Mouth is a rare and visually distinctive symbol belonging to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically part of the ancient Indus Valley script block, though its precise historical usage and meaning remain debated among scholars. This pictographic character depicts a stylized snake head oriented upward with its mouth agape, likely representing a serpentine motif that may have held symbolic significance in ritual, mythological, or administrative contexts of the Indus Valley civilization. While its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital representation, the character lacks a definitive modern interpretation due to the undeciphered nature of the Indus script, leaving its original function within inscriptions open to archaeological speculation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CC71
Version Added 16.0
Name Up-Facing Snake Head with Open Mouth
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜱱
HTML Hex Encoding 𜱱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB1 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDC71
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CC71
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\udc71

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 Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other