U+AAF5 "ꫵ" Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Visarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꫵ
U+AAF5 "ꫵ" Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Visarga is a diacritical mark used in the Meetei Mayek script, which is employed to write the Meitei language, primarily in the Indian state of Manipur. This sign represents a visarga, a phonetic feature that indicates a voiceless breathy release or an aspirated sound after a vowel, similar to its usage in other Indic scripts. It is positioned as a superscript after a vowel character to modify its pronunciation, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures proper digital representation and preservation of the Meetei Mayek writing system for modern text processing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAF5 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Visarga |
| Block | Meetei Mayek Extensions |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꫵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꫵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaaf5 |