U+A802 "ꠂ" Syloti Nagri Sign Dvisvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠂ
U+A802 "ꠂ" Syloti Nagri Sign Dvisvara is a diacritical mark used in the Syloti Nagri script, an abugida historically employed to write the Sylheti language in northeastern Bangladesh and parts of India. This sign specifically denotes a visarga or a long vowel marker, often indicating a lengthened or doubled vowel sound in the orthography, and it functions as a modifier attached to a consonant or vowel base to alter pronunciation. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, under the Syloti Nagri block, helps preserve and digitally represent this minority script, ensuring accurate text rendering and linguistic documentation for the Sylheti-speaking community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A802 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Sign Dvisvara |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA802 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A802 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua802 |