U+A8E6 "꣦" Combining Devanagari Digit Six Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣦
U+A8E6 "꣦" Combining Devanagari Digit Six is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script, specifically designed to be placed above or on top of a base character to indicate the numeral six within a textual context. Unlike standalone Devanagari digits, this combining form integrates with letters as a superscript or attached modifier, typically appearing in specialized phonetic or numerical notation systems such as the Devanagari Extended block. It is part of a set of combining digits that allow scholars and typographers to represent numeric values or grammatical annotations without disrupting the flow of the script’s inherent ligature structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8E6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Combining Devanagari Digit Six |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8e6 |