U+11944 "𑥄" Dives Akuru Double Danda Unicode Character

U+11944 "𑥄" Dives Akuru Double Danda is a punctuation mark used in the Dives Akuru script, which was historically employed to write the Dhivehi language in the Maldives and parts of the Lakshadweep islands before the gradual shift to the Thaana script. This character functions as a sentence boundary marker, specifically indicating the end of a verse or a major section of text, similar to the role of a double danda in other Brahmic scripts such as Devanagari. As part of the Dives Akuru block, which was added to Unicode in version 13.0 in 2020, this double danda helps preserve the structural conventions of an ancient writing system that is now of significant interest to historical linguists and epigraphers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11944
Version Added	13.0
Name	Dives Akuru Double Danda
Block	Dives Akuru
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 0xA5 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD806 0xDD44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011944
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud806\udd44

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	Dives Akuru
Script Extensions	Dives Akuru
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Sentence Terminal	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	STerm