U+1E2D6 "𞋖" Wancho Letter Au Unicode Character

U+1E2D6 "𞋖" Wancho Letter Au is a symbol representing the vowel sound "au" in the Wancho script, an abugida created in the 20th century for writing the Wancho language spoken by the Wancho Naga people in northeastern India, primarily in Arunachal Pradesh. This character is part of the Wancho block (U+1E2C0 to U+1E2FF) encoded in Unicode version 12.0, released in 2019, to support the digital representation of the language's distinct orthography. The letter visually consists of a curved stroke with a dot or diacritic marker, contributing to the writing system's unique structure that combines consonants with inherent and dependent vowel signs. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and promote the Wancho language and cultural heritage in modern digital contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1E2D6
Version Added	12.0
Name	Wancho Letter Au
Block	Wancho
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞋖
HTML Hex Encoding	𞋖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0x8B 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD838 0xDED6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001E2D6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud838\uded6

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	Wancho
Script Extensions	Wancho
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter