U+A837 "꠷" North Indic Placeholder Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꠷
U+A837 "꠷" North Indic Placeholder Mark is a small, abstract symbol used in the context of the Syloti Nagri script, where it functions as a visible placeholder to indicate a missing or omitted character, typically in scholarly or typographic annotations, rather than representing a phonetic sound or letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A837 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | North Indic Placeholder 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 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA837 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A837 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua837 |
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 |