U+A818 "ꠘ" Syloti Nagri Letter No Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A818 "ꠘ" Syloti Nagri Letter No is a vowel letter used in the Syloti Nagri script, which is historically employed for writing the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of northeast India. This specific character represents the nasalized vowel sound corresponding to the letter "no" in the Syloti Nagri alphabet, functioning as a distinct phonetic element within the script's orthography. The Unicode Consortium encodes it as part of the Syloti Nagri block, which was added to the standard in version 4.0 in 2003 to support digital representation of this lesser-known but culturally significant Brahmi-derived writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+A818
Version Added 4.1
Name Syloti Nagri Letter No
Block Syloti Nagri
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꠘ
HTML Hex Encoding ꠘ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA0 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA818
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A818
C/C++/Java Escape \ua818

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 Syloti Nagri
Script Extensions Syloti Nagri
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter