U+A839 "꠹" North Indic Quantity Mark Unicode Character

U+A839 "꠹" North Indic Quantity Mark is a rare typographic symbol used in historical and scholarly contexts for the representation of ancient North Indian numeral systems, specifically serving as a mark indicating a unit of quantity or measure within manuscripts and inscriptions. It belongs to the Syloti Nagri block, though it is not part of the standard Sylheti alphabet, and is encoded primarily for the transliteration and accurate reproduction of historical documents where such quantity marks appear. This character is distinct from regular digits and punctuation, functioning as a specialized notation for denoting amounts or counts, making it valuable for philologists and historians working with early Indic texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A839
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Quantity Mark
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠹
HTML Hex Encoding	꠹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA839
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A839
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua839

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