U+A82C "꠬" Syloti Nagri Sign Alternate Hasanta Unicode Character

U+A82C "꠬" Syloti Nagri Sign Alternate Hasanta is a special orthographic mark used in the Syloti Nagri script, historically employed to write the Sylheti language of northeastern India and Bangladesh. It functions as an alternative form of the hasanta or virama character, which typically indicates the suppression of an inherent vowel in a consonant, but this alternate sign is specifically applied in certain phonetic or conjunct contexts, often replacing the standard hasanta to clarify pronunciation or distinguish ligature formations. Unlike its counterpart, this character may appear in a slightly different visual form or serve a more restricted role in textual conventions, particularly in older manuscripts or modern digital fonts where precise vowel deletion is necessary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A82C
Version Added	13.0
Name	Syloti Nagri Sign Alternate Hasanta
Block	Syloti Nagri
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Virama
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠬
HTML Hex Encoding	꠬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA82C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A82C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua82c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Syloti Nagri
Script Extensions	Syloti Nagri
Indic Syllabic Category	Pure Killer
Indic Positional Category	Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend