Source: Noto Sans Saurashtra

U+A8C4 Saurashtra Sign Virama

U+A8C4 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 Nonspacing 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 acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+A8C4 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	43204
UTF-8	EA A3 84
UTF-16	A8 C4
UTF-32	00 00 A8 C4
URL-Quoted	%EA%A3%84
HTML hex reference	꣄
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â—Œê£„
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	82 36 FA 37

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name (na)	SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Saurashtra
General Category (gc)	Nonspacing Mark
Script (sc)	Saurashtra
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class (ccc)	Virama
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Case Folding (cf)	Saurashtra 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)	Saurashtra 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)	Extend
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)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Saurashtra 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)	Saurashtra 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)	Saurashtra Sign Virama
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R