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Glyph for U+A8EA
Source: Noto Sans Devanagari

U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A

U+A8EA was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block U+A8E0 to U+A8FF Devanagari Extended 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 vaidika saamasvara abhinihita.

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+A8EA prohibits a line break before it.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 43242
UTF-8 EA A3 AA
UTF-16 A8 EA
UTF-32 00 00 A8 EA
URL-Quoted %EA%A3%AA
HTML hex reference ꣪
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌꣪
alias vaidika saamasvara abhinihita
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 82 36 FE 35

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name (na) COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER A
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Devanagari Extended
General Category (gc) Nonspacing Mark
Script (sc) Devanagari
Bidirectional Category (bc) Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class (ccc) Above
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
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+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
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) Top
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Cantillation_Mark
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+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
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+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
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+A8EA Combining Devanagari Letter A
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R