U+11606 "𑘆" Modi Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character

U+11606 "𑘆" Modi Letter Vocalic R is a character from the Modi script, a historical writing system used primarily to write the Marathi language in western India during the 17th to 20th centuries. This specific character represents the vocalic r sound, a syllabic consonant used in languages like Marathi and Sanskrit where the letter acts as a vowel akin to the sound in the English word "sir". It belongs to the block of Modi script characters in the Unicode Standard, encoding a unique glyph that distinguishes it from the standard consonant r. This character is part of a larger effort to preserve and digitally represent historic South Asian scripts, allowing for accurate textual reproduction of religious, literary, and administrative documents from the time of the Maratha Empire.