U+A8C5 Saurashtra Sign Candrabindu
U+A8C5 was added in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Saurashtra script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+A8C5 prohibits a line break before it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Saurashtra script is an abugida script that is used by Saurashtrians of Tamil Nadu to write the Saurashtra language. The script is of Brahmic origin, although its exact derivation is not known which was later reformed and standardized by T.M.Ram Rai. Its usage has declined, and the Tamil and Latin scripts are now used more commonly.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 43205 |
UTF-8 | EA A3 85 |
UTF-16 | A8 C5 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 A8 C5 |
URL-Quoted | %EA%A3%85 |
HTML hex reference | ꣅ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ꣅ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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9.0 (2016) | |
SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU | |
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Saurashtra | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Saurashtra | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
Top | |
Bindu | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Combining Mark | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |