U+A8CE "꣎" Saurashtra Danda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣎
U+A8CE "꣎" Saurashtra Danda is a punctuation mark used in the Saurashtra script, an abugida historically employed to write the Saurashtra language in parts of southern India. This danda serves as a period or full stop, indicating the end of a sentence or a major grammatical pause, similar to the function of a danda in other Brahmic scripts like Devanagari. It is encoded in the Unicode Saurashtra block and supports the proper representation of traditional Saurashtra texts, aiding in clear textual segmentation and preservation of the script's typographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8CE |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Saurashtra Danda |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8ce |
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 | Break After |
| Script | Saurashtra |
| Script Extensions | Saurashtra |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |