U+0A74 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Gurmukhi in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Gurmukhi script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+0A74 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type OLetter for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ik Onkar (Gurmukhi: ੴ, ਇੱਕ ਓਅੰਕਾਰ; Ikk Ōankār Punjabi pronunciation: [ɪkː oəŋkaɾ]) is the symbol that represents the One Supreme Reality and is a central tenet of Sikh religious philosophy. Ik (ਇੱਕ) means one or united, On (ਓਅੰ) means supreme, ultimate, or highest bhrama (God), and the Atma (Soul) of the entire universe or system, and kār (ਕਾਰ) means without shape or form.
It is a symbol of the unity of God in Sikhism, and is found on all religious scriptures and places such as Gurdwaras. Derived from Punjabi, Ik Onkār is the first phrase in the Mul Mantar referring to the existence of "one constant" that is ॐ Om taken to mean "one God". It is found in the Gurmukhi script and is consequently also part of the Sikh morning prayer, Japji Sahib. It is a combination of two characters, the numeral ੧, Ikk (one) and the first letter of the word Onkar (Constant taken to mean God) - which also happens to be the first letter of the Gurmukhī script - an ūṛā, ੳ, coupled with a specially adapted vowel symbol hōṛā, yielding ਓ. "Ik" is the alternative spelling and pronunciation of "ek" i.e. one in Hindi and several other Indian languages, while onkar is another way of spelling and pronouncing (particularly in Gurmukhi and Punjabi) the "Om", or "Aum"—the pan-Hindu symbol that represents the Highest Reality or the Supreme Being. The Gurmukhi letter used to write onkar is also the equivalent to the letter "Om" in Devnagari and other Indian scripts. Thus "Onkar" or "Om-kara" representing the Supreme Divine in Sikhism was the natural outcome of Sikhism as a religion being born within the Hindu cultural sphere, and founded by saints who were Hindus by birth, social identity and beliefs—like the other Indic or Dharmic religions born within the Hindu matrix like Jainism and Buddhism.
System | Representation |
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Nº | 2676 |
UTF-8 | E0 A9 B4 |
UTF-16 | 0A 74 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 0A 74 |
URL-Quoted | %E0%A9%B4 |
HTML-Escape | ੴ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | à©´ |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 1.1 |
Unicode Name (na) | GURMUKHI EK ONKAR |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
Block (blk) | Gurmukhi |
General Category (gc) | Other Letter |
Script (sc) | Gurmukhi |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
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) | ✘ |
Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
InMC (InMC) | — |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
Math (Math) | ✘ |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
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) | ✘ |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Gurmukhi |
Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
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) | ✘ |