U+A8F1 "꣱" Combining Devanagari Sign Avagraha Unicode Character

U+A8F1 "꣱" Combining Devanagari Sign Avagraha is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to denote the elision or omission of a vowel sound, typically representing the Sanskrit grammatical phenomenon known as avagraha, where an initial short 'a' is dropped in compound words or euphonic combinations. This character is "combining" meaning it attaches to the preceding base character rather than standing alone, and it appears as a small, vertical or slanting stroke above or near the letter. It is part of the Devanagari Extended Unicode block and is employed primarily in scholarly or liturgical texts to accurately transcribe Vedic and classical Sanskrit, ensuring phonetic precision in written form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A8F1
Version Added	5.2
Name	Combining Devanagari Sign Avagraha
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 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA8F1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A8F1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua8f1

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	Bengali Devanagari Tulu Tigalari
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