U+1CE2D "𜸭" Large Type Piece Short Lower Terminal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜸭

U+1CE2D "𜸭" Large Type Piece Short Lower Terminal is a symbol from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization script, encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane as part of the Indus Script block for digital representation of undeciphered writing systems. It depicts a stylized, short vertical or angular lower terminal mark, often interpreted by epigraphers as a simplified sign for counting, a boundary marker, or a phonetic component in the still‑unread Indus inscriptions found on seals and pottery fragments. Researchers study this character to analyze patterns in the script’s morphology and possible links to Dravidian or other language families, though its exact meaning remains unknown due to the lack of a bilingual Rosetta Stone for the Indus civilization.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CE2D
Version Added 16.0
Name Large Type Piece Short Lower Terminal
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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDE2D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CE2D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\ude2d

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