U+11C70 "𑱰" Marchen Head Mark Unicode Character

U+11C70 "𑱰" Marchen Head Mark is a punctuation symbol from the historical Marchen script, which was used to write the Zhangzhung language in the ancient kingdom of Zhangzhung in western Tibet. This head mark functions as a decorative or sectional indicator, typically appearing at the beginning of a text or a major section within a manuscript, serving a similar purpose to a title marker or heading delineator. It is part of the Marchen block in Unicode, encoded to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct script and its associated religious and historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11C70
Version Added	9.0
Name	Marchen Head Mark
Block	Marchen
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 0xB1 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD807 0xDC70
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011C70
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud807\udc70

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