U+1CDA8 "𜶨" Block Octant-34568 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜶨

U+1CDA8 "𜶨" Block Octant-34568 is a rarely encountered symbol allocated to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the newly defined Octant-34568 block, which is reserved for experimental, placeholder, or interexchange notation rather than representing a standard script or language. This character’s graphical design, a geometric arrangement resembling a stylized octant or compasslike figure, lacks a widely recognized semantic meaning in everyday text and instead serves as a coded placeholder for technical or legacy data mapping. Its inclusion in Unicode highlights the standard’s capacity to accommodate specialized symbols for niche numeric or encoding contexts, ensuring that even obscure or synthetically constructed glyphs have a defined digital address without emdashes or bullet points disrupting its formal description.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CDA8
Version Added	16.0
Name	Block Octant-34568
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𜶨
HTML Hex Encoding	𜶨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9C 0xB6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDDA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CDA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\udda8

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