U+1104C "𑁌" Brahmi Punctuation Crescent Bar Unicode Character

U+1104C "𑁌" Brahmi Punctuation Crescent Bar is a punctuation mark from the historic Brahmi script, which was used to write various early Indian languages. This character resembles a small crescent shape and likely functioned as a word separator or a pause indicator in ancient Brahmi inscriptions, aligning with similar punctuation found in other early writing systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally represent the textual structure of ancient documents, facilitating research into the linguistic and historical development of South Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1104C
Version Added	6.0
Name	Brahmi Punctuation Crescent Bar
Block	Brahmi
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𑁌
HTML Hex Encoding	𑁌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x91 0x81 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD804 0xDC4C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001104C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud804\udc4c

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	Ideographic
Script	Brahmi
Script Extensions	Brahmi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other