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Glyph for U+A8EC
Source: Noto Sans Devanagari

U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka

U+A8EC 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 ka.

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+A8EC prohibits a line break before it.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 43244
UTF-8 EA A3 AC
UTF-16 A8 EC
UTF-32 00 00 A8 EC
URL-Quoted %EA%A3%AC
HTML hex reference ꣬
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌꣬
alias vaidika saamasvara ka
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 82 36 FE 37

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name (na) COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER KA
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+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Lowercase (Lower) ✘︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Uppercase (Upper) ✘︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
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+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
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+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
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+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
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+A8EC Combining Devanagari Letter Ka
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R