U+11B06 "𑬆" Devanagari Sign Western Five-like Bhale Unicode Character

U+11B06 "𑬆" Devanagari Sign Western Five-like Bhale is a recently encoded diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a nasalization tone in certain dialects of the Western Pahari languages, particularly in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India. Its name derives from its visual resemblance to the digit five in Western-style numeral shapes, and it is placed above a character to modify its pronunciation, signifying a specific phonetic nuance within the orthography. This character was added to Unicode as part of the Devanagari Extended-A block to support the written form of languages like Mandeali and Kullui, aiding in the accurate documentation and digital preservation of these minority languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11B06
Version Added	15.0
Name	Devanagari Sign Western Five-like 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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD806 0xDF06
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011B06
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud806\udf06

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