U+A8F0 "꣰" Combining Devanagari Letter Vi Unicode Character

U+A8F0 "꣰" Combining Devanagari Letter Vi is a diacritical mark used in the extended Devanagari script to modify the sound of a base consonant. It appears as a combining mark positioned below or attached to a consonant, specifically representing a vowel-like element related to the letter "Vi" in certain scholarly or liturgical transliterations. This character is part of the Devanagari Extended Unicode block, which supports additional characters for transcribing ancient or specialized texts, such as those found in Sanskrit manuscripts or technical linguistic notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A8F0
Version Added	5.2
Name	Combining Devanagari Letter Vi
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 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA8F0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A8F0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua8f0

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