U+11B01 "𑬁" Devanagari Head Mark with Headstroke Unicode Character

U+11B01 "𑬁" Devanagari Head Mark with Headstroke is a specialized diacritical mark used within the Devanagari script, primarily found in historical or manuscripts-based orthographies. Unlike ordinary vowel signs or consonant modifiers, this character serves as a superscript ornamentation placed above a letter to denote a distinct phonetic feature or a specific scribal convention, often indicating a nasalization or a modified syllable rhythm. Its headstroke component, a horizontal line above the character, ties it to the traditional Devanagari writing style, where such marks help clarify pronunciation or grammatical nuances in texts like medieval Sanskrit or early modern vernacular manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11B01
Version Added	15.0
Name	Devanagari Head Mark with Headstroke
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 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD806 0xDF01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011B01
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud806\udf01

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