Home U+A880 to U+A8DF Saurashtra
Glyph for U+A8B8
Source: Noto Sans Saurashtra

U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U

U+A8B8 was added in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. It belongs to the block U+A880 to U+A8DF Saurashtra in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Saurashtra script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+A8B8 prohibits a line break before it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Saurashtra script is an abugida script that is used by Saurashtrians of Tamil Nadu to write the Saurashtra language. The script is of Brahmic origin, although its exact derivation is not known; it was later reformed and standardized by T. M. Rama Rai. Its usage has declined, and the Tamil and Latin scripts are now used more commonly.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 43192
UTF-8 EA A2 B8
UTF-16 A8 B8
UTF-32 00 00 A8 B8
URL-Quoted %EA%A2%B8
HTML hex reference ꢸ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ꢸ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 82 36 F9 35

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name (na) SAURASHTRA VOWEL SIGN U
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Saurashtra
General Category (gc) Spacing Mark
Script (sc) Saurashtra
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
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+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Spacing Mark
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) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) Right
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Vowel_Dependent
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+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
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+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
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) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+A8B8 Saurashtra Vowel Sign U
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R