U+A81F "ꠟ" Syloti Nagri Letter Lo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A81F "ꠟ" Syloti Nagri Letter Lo is a fundamental consonant in the Syloti Nagri script, representing the sound /l/ in the Sylheti language, which is spoken primarily in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of Northeast India. This script was historically used for writing Sylheti but has been largely supplanted by the Bengali script and the Latin alphabet, though it retains cultural and religious significance among Sylheti communities. The letter "Lo" is part of a distinctive abugida system, where each consonant character carries an inherent vowel sound, typically /ɔ/, and can be modified by diacritical marks to indicate other vowels. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the script’s heritage and enables digital communication for Sylheti speakers and scholars.

General Properties

Code Point U+A81F
Version Added 4.1
Name Syloti Nagri Letter Lo
Block Syloti Nagri
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꠟ
HTML Hex Encoding ꠟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA0 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA81F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A81F
C/C++/Java Escape \ua81f

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 Syloti Nagri
Script Extensions Syloti Nagri
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
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