U+A8E3 "꣣" Combining Devanagari Digit Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣣
U+A8E3 "꣣" Combining Devanagari Digit Three is a combining mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the numeral three, but it functions as a diacritical sign rather than an independent digit. It is typically placed above or attached to a base character to modify or extend its meaning, specifically within certain Indic textual traditions or specialized orthographies. This character belongs to the Devanagari Extended Unicode block and is distinct from the standalone Devanagari digit three, serving instead in complex script contexts where digits are used as combining elements for phonetic or numeric annotation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8E3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Combining Devanagari Digit Three |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8e3 |