U+A8EA "꣪" Combining Devanagari Letter A Unicode Character

U+A8EA "꣪" Combining Devanagari Letter A is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a modified or dependent form of the vowel "A," specifically designed to combine with a base character in certain extended or specialized orthographies, such as those for transcribing Sanskrit or other languages within the Unicode block for Devanagari Extended. It functions as a combining mark, meaning it is placed above or attached to a consonant character to alter its pronunciation or grammatical function, rather than standing alone as an independent letter.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A8EA
Version Added	5.2
Name	Combining Devanagari Letter A
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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA8EA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A8EA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua8ea

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Combining Mark
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Devanagari
Script Extensions	Devanagari
Indic Syllabic Category	Cantillation Mark
Indic Positional Category	Top
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend