U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
U+094D was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Devanagari in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Devanagari script. The character is also known as halant (the preferred Hindi name).
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 3 other glyphs. In text U+094D behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter, commonly used as a generic term for a codepoint in Unicode, representing either
- halanta or explicit virāma, a diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including the Devanagari and Eastern Nagari scripts, or
- saṃyuktākṣara (Sanskrit: संयुक्ताक्षर) or implicit virama, a conjunct consonant or ligature.
Unicode schemes of scripts writing Mainland Southeast Asia languages, such as that of Burmese script and of Tibetan script, generally don't group the two functions together.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 2381 |
| UTF-8 | E0 A5 8D |
| UTF-16 | 09 4D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 09 4D |
| URL-Quoted | %E0%A5%8D |
| HTML hex reference | ् |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ॠ|
| alias | halant (the preferred Hindi name) |
| Adobe Glyph List | viramadeva |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA | |
| — | |
| Devanagari | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Devanagari | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Virama | |
| None | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| Bottom | |
| Virama | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Transparent | |
| Combining Mark | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Devanagari Sign Virama | |
| R |