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Glyph for U+0970
Source: Noto Sans Devanagari

U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign

U+0970 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0900 to U+097F Devanagari in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Devanagari script.

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. The word that U+0970 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 4 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The laghava ( ॰; from the Sanskrit: लाघव चिह्न, romanized: lāghava cihna, lit. 'brevity sign') is the Devanagari abbreviation sign, comparable to the full stop or ellipsis as used in the Latin alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode at U+0970 ॰ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN.

It is used as abbreviation sign in Hindi and other Devanagari-script-based languages. For example, "Dr." is written as "डॉ॰", "M.Sc." as "एम॰एससी॰", etc.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 2416
UTF-8 E0 A5 B0
UTF-16 09 70
UTF-32 00 00 09 70
URL-Quoted %E0%A5%B0
HTML hex reference ॰
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ॰
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 31 D8 30
Adobe Glyph List abbreviationsigndeva

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Devanagari
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Devanagari
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0970 Devanagari Abbreviation Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R