U+1CE21 "𜸡" Large Type Piece Upper Half Vertex of M Unicode Character

U+1CE21 "𜸡" Large Type Piece Upper Half Vertex of M is a symbol belonging to the historic Indus Valley script, encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane as part of the Indus Script block. This specific glyph represents the upper half or vertex portion of a larger sign that likely depicts a letter or logogram shaped like an "M" or a mountain peak. The character is used for scholarly research and digital representation of ancient Indus Valley texts, which have not yet been fully deciphered, making it a valuable tool for epigraphers and linguists studying the bronze age civilization of South Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CE21
Version Added	16.0
Name	Large Type Piece Upper Half Vertex of M
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 0xB8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDE21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CE21
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\ude21

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