U+0D02 MALAYALAM SIGN ANUSVARA: ം – Unicode

U+0D02 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0D00 to U+0D7F Malayalam in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Malayalam 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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0D02 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Spacing Mark.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार anusvāra) is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ⟨ṃ⟩. Depending on its location in the word and the language for which it is used, its exact pronunciation can vary. In the context of ancient Sanskrit, anusvara is the name of the particular nasal sound itself, regardless of written representation.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	3330
UTF-8	E0 B4 82
UTF-16	0D 02
UTF-32	00 00 0D 02
URL-Quoted	%E0%B4%82
HTML hex reference	ം
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	à´‚

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Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	MALAYALAM SIGN ANUSVARA
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Malayalam
General Category	Spacing Mark
Script	Malayalam
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Lowercase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Uppercase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Titlecase Mapping	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Case Folding	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Grapheme Cluster Break	Spacing Mark
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	Right
Indic Syllabic Category	Bindu
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✔
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Extend
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Extend
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Combining Mark
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Malayalam Sign Anusvara
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R

U+0D02 Malayalam Sign Anusvara

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