Source: Noto Sans Devanagari

U+A837 North Indic Placeholder Mark

U+A837 was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block U+A830 to U+A83F Common Indic Number Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Devanagari, Dogra, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Khojki, Kaithi, Mahajani, Modi, Sindhi, Takri, Tirhuta.

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+A837 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	43063
UTF-8	EA A0 B7
UTF-16	A8 37
UTF-32	00 00 A8 37
URL-Quoted	%EA%A0%B7
HTML hex reference	꠷
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ê ·
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	82 36 EC 36

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name (na)	NORTH INDIC PLACEHOLDER MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Case Folding (cf)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
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)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
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)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
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)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
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)	North Indic Placeholder Mark
Script Extension (scx)	Devanagari Dogra Gujarati Gurmukhi Khojki Kaithi Mahajani Modi Sindhi Takri Tirhuta
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R