U+11B02 "𑬂" Devanagari Sign Bhale Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑬂
U+11B02 "𑬂" Devanagari Sign Bhale is a diacritic mark used in the Devanagari script, specifically within the extended Devanagari block, to modify the inherent vowel of a consonant. It indicates an extra short, or "very short", vowel quality, often transcribed as a breathy or murmured sound, and is primarily found in historical or liturgical texts such as those for Sanskrit or Marathi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11B02 |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Bhale |
| 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 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDF02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011B02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udf02 |
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 |