GRANTHA LETTER II character

GRANTHA LETTER II
U+11308
70408
𑌈
𑌈
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Grantha
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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GRANTHA LETTER II is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of GRANTHA LETTER II is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Grantha block. The Grantha block contains characters used in the Grantha script, which is used for writing Sanskrit and classical Tamil texts in South India. The script is an abugida, with each consonant carrying an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. The Grantha script has a long history, dating back to at least the 5th century CE, and was used primarily for religious and scholarly texts. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Grantha, reflecting its significance in the preservation and transmission of Hindu scriptures and classical literature..