U+1CE36 "𜸶" Large Type Piece Stem with Left Crossbar Unicode Character

U+1CE36 "𜸶" Large Type Piece Stem with Left Crossbar is a sign from the Indus Valley Script, an undeciphered writing system used in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 to 1900 BCE. This character represents a specific glyph that functions as a modular component of the script, often inscribed on seals, tablets, or pottery, and is characterized by a vertical stem with a crossbar extending to the left. Its exact phonetic or semantic value remains unknown, as the script has not yet been fully decoded, but it is part of a larger corpus of symbols that scholars study to understand the language and administrative practices of this early urban society.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CE36
Version Added	16.0
Name	Large Type Piece Stem with Left Crossbar
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 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDE36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CE36
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\ude36

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