U+A828 "꠨" Syloti Nagri Poetry Mark-1 Unicode Character

U+A828 "꠨" Syloti Nagri Poetry Mark-1 is a punctuation mark used in the Syloti Nagri script, which is traditionally employed to write the Sylheti language spoken in parts of northeastern India and Bangladesh. This character functions specifically as a poetic or verse delimiter, often placed at the end of a line or stanza to denote a pause, breath, or structural break in poetry, similar in concept to a danda or purnaviram in other South Asian scripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in Syloti Nagri can accurately represent the rhythmic and formal conventions of traditional Sylheti verse, preserving a key typographic element for the script's literary heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A828
Version Added	4.1
Name	Syloti Nagri Poetry Mark-1
Block	Syloti Nagri
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠨
HTML Hex Encoding	꠨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA828
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A828
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua828

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	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other