Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F)

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Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F) is the Unicode block that encodes the historic Grantha script used in South India, primarily for writing Sanskrit.

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Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
associatedWith Kerala
Tamil Nadu
blockName Pallava Grantha
surface form: Grantha
characterSetType alphabetic
codeSpace Basic Multilingual Plane
contains Grantha digits
Grantha letters
Grantha punctuation marks
Grantha virama
Grantha vowel signs
definedIn The Unicode Standard
encodingPurpose digital representation of Grantha script
hasAnusvaraLikeSign yes
hasCanonicalCombiningClassMarks yes
hasCombiningMarks yes
hasConsonants yes
hasDependentVowelSigns yes
hasIndependentVowels yes
hasNuktaLikeSigns yes
hasViramaSign yes
hasVisargaLikeSign yes
plane Plane 0 (BMP)
primaryUsage writing Sanskrit
relatedScript Devanagari script
Malayalam script
Tamil script
scriptCategory abugida
scriptEncoded Grantha script
scriptFamily Indic scripts
scriptStatus historic script
scriptType Brahmic script
scriptUsagePeriod medieval South India
standard Unicode
supportsConjunctConsonants yes
supportsLigatures yes
unicodeRangeEnd U+1137F
unicodeRangeStart U+11300
usedFor transmission of Sanskrit literature in South India
usedForLanguage Sanskrit
Tamil (for Sanskrit loanwords and mantras)
usedInContext Hindu religious texts
Vedic and classical Sanskrit manuscripts
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemRegion South India

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Grantha script unicodeBlock Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F)