U+11A9C "𑪜" Soyombo Mark Double Shad Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11A9C "𑪜" Soyombo Mark Double Shad is a rare diacritical mark used in the Soyombo script, an abugida historically employed to write Mongolian and Tibetan languages, primarily in Buddhist and ritual contexts. This specific symbol indicates a doubled or reinforced "shad," which is a punctuation mark in these scripts used to signify a longer pause or the end of a section of text, similar to a period or comma in Western writing. The double shad likely adds emphasis or denotes a major structural break within a manuscript, such as the conclusion of a significant textual division, though its precise usage is not fully standardized due to the script’s limited modern application. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient writing system for scholarly and cultural purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+11A9C
Version Added 10.0
Name Soyombo Mark Double Shad
Block Soyombo
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 0xAA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDE9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011A9C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\ude9c

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 Soyombo
Script Extensions Soyombo
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Terminal Punctuation Yes
Sentence Terminal Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break STerm