U+A8EC "꣬" Combining Devanagari Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣬
U+A8EC "꣬" Combining Devanagari Letter Ka is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to modify or combine with a base character, specifically representing a ligating form of the consonant "ka." It belongs to the Devanagari Extended block and is employed in certain transliteration and orthographic systems, such as for writing the Sanskrit language or other Indic texts, where it attaches to a preceding character to indicate a conjunct or a phonetic nuance without standing alone as an independent symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8EC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Combining Devanagari Letter Ka |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8ec |