U+A838 "꠸" North Indic Rupee Mark Unicode Character

U+A838 "꠸" North Indic Rupee Mark is a typographic symbol used historically in the currencies of the Indian subcontinent, particularly associated with the Sylheti Nagari script, where it functioned as a monetary sign for the rupee. This character was introduced in Unicode version 5.2, released in 2009, to represent a distinctive coinage abbreviation that dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries, appearing in manuscripts and legal documents from the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh and Assam, India. Unlike modern rupee signs, such as the Indian rupee symbol ₹ (U+20B9) or the generic rupee sign ₨ (U+20A8), the North Indic Rupee Mark is a historical glyph with a curved, calligraphic form, reflecting the indigenous accounting practices of the area before the standardization of regional currency symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A838
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Rupee Mark
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠸
HTML Hex Encoding	꠸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA838
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A838
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua838

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