U+10A53 "𐩓" Kharoshthi Punctuation Crescent Bar Unicode Character

U+10A53 "𐩓" Kharoshthi Punctuation Crescent Bar is a distinct punctuation mark used in the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was historically employed to write the Gandhari language and Prakrits in regions of present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This symbol, featuring a crescent shape with a horizontal bar, likely served as a separator between textual units such as words or phrases, similar to modern punctuation, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this significant but lesser known writing system from the Indian subcontinent.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10A53
Version Added	4.1
Name	Kharoshthi Punctuation Crescent Bar
Block	Kharoshthi
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐩓
HTML Hex Encoding	𐩓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDE53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010A53
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\ude53

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	Break After
Script	Kharoshthi
Script Extensions	Kharoshthi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other