U+0B70 "୰" Oriya Isshar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B70 "୰" Oriya Isshar is a distinctive symbol used in the Odia script, primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, where it functions as an abbreviation marker or an abbreviation sign often placed after a shortened word or phrase to indicate an omission or contraction, much like a period or full stop in some other writing systems. It is not a letter or a vowel sign but rather a punctuation mark with specific typographic and linguistic functions in written Odia. This character is part of the Unicode block for the Odia script and is encoded at the hexadecimal code point U+0B70.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B70 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Isshar |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b70 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Oriya |
| Script Extensions | Oriya |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |