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Glyph for U+094D
Source: Noto Sans Devanagari

U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama

U+094D 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 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+094D prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with 3 other glyphs.

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

  1. halanta, hasanta or explicit virāma, a diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including the Devanagari and Bengali scripts, or
  2. 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 do not 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 ◌्
alias halant (the preferred Hindi name)
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 31 D4 35
Adobe Glyph List viramadeva

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Devanagari
General Category (gc) Nonspacing Mark
Script (sc) Devanagari
Bidirectional Category (bc) Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class (ccc) Virama
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
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+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Extend
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) Linker
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) Bottom
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Virama
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+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
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) Extend
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Extend
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+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
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) Transparent
Line Break (lb) Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+094D Devanagari Sign Virama
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R