U+A801 "ꠁ" Syloti Nagri Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠁ
U+A801 "ꠁ" Syloti Nagri Letter I is a vowel used in the Syloti Nagri script, which was historically employed to write the Sylheti language primarily in the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh and parts of Northeast India. This character represents the short vowel sound /i/, akin to the "i" in the English word "sit," and it functions as an independent letter when a syllable begins with this vowel, while in other contexts it can combine with consonant letters as a dependent vowel sign. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital representation and preservation of the Sylheti language, which has seen a revival in script usage for cultural and literary purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A801 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter I |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA801 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A801 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua801 |