U+A836 "꠶" North Indic Quarter Mark Unicode Character

U+A836 "꠶" North Indic Quarter Mark is a typographic symbol used in the North Indic script family, particularly within the Syloti Nagri writing system for the Sylheti language, to indicate a fraction or a quarter measure. It resembles a simplified numeral or a diacritic-like mark and is designed to integrate within text to denote one fourth of a unit, often appearing in financial, commercial, or mathematical contexts where traditional numeric fraction notation may not be standard. This character is part of the larger Unicode block for Syloti Nagri, which was encoded to support the digital representation of this historically significant script used in northeastern India and Bangladesh.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A836
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Quarter Mark
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠶
HTML Hex Encoding	꠶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA836
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A836
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua836

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	Devanagari Dogra Gujarati Gurmukhi Khojki Kaithi Mahajani Modi Khudawadi Takri Tirhuta
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other