U+11B00 "𑬀" Devanagari Head Mark Unicode Character

U+11B00 "𑬀" Devanagari Head Mark is a special diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to indicate a head line or a similar structural element in certain historical or scholarly texts. This character is part of the Devanagari Extended-A block, which was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 to support additional phonetic and orthographic needs, particularly for transcribing sounds from other languages or representing ancient manuscripts. Its function resembles a combining mark that can be placed above or alongside Devanagari characters to modify their pronunciation or denote a specific grammatical or editorial feature, making it a tool for precise linguistic representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11B00
Version Added	15.0
Name	Devanagari Head Mark
Block	Devanagari Extended-A
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 0xAC 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD806 0xDF00
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011B00
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud806\udf00

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