U+119AD "𑦭" Nandinagari Letter Au Unicode Character

U+119AD "𑦭" Nandinagari Letter Au is a specific glyph from the Nandinagari script, an ancient and historical Brahmic writing system primarily used to write Sanskrit and Kannada in southern India. This character represents the independent vowel sound "au," which is the equivalent of the diphthong /au/ in South Asian languages. Part of the Nandinagari Unicode block, it was added in version 12.0 of the Unicode Standard to support the digital encoding of texts from medieval inscriptions and manuscripts. Visually, it appears as a cursive glyph with a distinctive hooked shape, differing from the more common Devanagari script's representation of the same vowel.