U+0965 Devanagari Double Danda
U+0965 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bengali, Devanagari, Dogra, Gunjala Gondi, Masaram Gondi, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Mahajani, Malayalam, Nandinagari, Oriya, Sindhi, Sinhala, Syloti Nagri, Takri, Tamil, Telugu, Tirhuta. The character is also known as deergh viram.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+0965 offers a line break opportunity after its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड daṇḍa "stick") is a punctuation mark. The glyph consists of a single vertical stroke.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 2405 |
UTF-8 | E0 A5 A5 |
UTF-16 | 09 65 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 09 65 |
URL-Quoted | %E0%A5%A5 |
HTML hex reference | ॥ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ॥ |
alias | deergh viram |
Adobe Glyph List | dbldanda |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA | |
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Devanagari | |
Other Punctuation | |
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Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Sentence Terminal | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Break After | |
none | |
not a number | |
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Bengali Devanagari Dogra Gunjala Gondi Masaram Gondi Grantha Gujarati Gurmukhi Kannada Limbu Mahajani Malayalam Nandinagari Oriya Sindhi Sinhala Syloti Nagri Takri Tamil Telugu Tirhuta | |
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