U+A875 Phags-Pa Double Head Mark
U+A875 was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Phags Pa script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+A875 behaves as Break Before regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Phagspa script or ʼPhags-pa script is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan. The actual use of this script was limited to about a hundred years during the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, and it fell out of use with the advent of the Ming dynasty.
It was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era. For historical linguists, the documentation of its use provides clues about the changes in these languages.
Its descendant systems include Horizontal square script, used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. There is a theory that the Korean Hangul alphabet had a limited influence from ʼPhags-pa (see Origin of Hangul). During the Pax Mongolica the script has even made numerous appearances in western medieval art.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 43125 |
UTF-8 | EA A1 B5 |
UTF-16 | A8 75 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 A8 75 |
URL-Quoted | %EA%A1%B5 |
HTML hex reference | ꡵ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ꡵ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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PHAGS-PA DOUBLE HEAD MARK | |
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Phags-pa | |
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Phags Pa | |
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