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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F) canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block ⓘ
associatedWith Kerala ⓘ
Tamil Nadu ⓘ
blockName Grantha ⓘ
linked to: Pallava 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) ⓘ